Nichole Marie Shippen

Nichole Marie Shippen received a PhD in Political Science from Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is currently Program Coordinator and Associate Professor of Political Science at LaGuardia Community College at CUNY and has taught a course on the Politics of Death and Dying for the Political Science Department at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Decolonizing Time: Work, Leisure, and Freedom (2014), for Palgrave Macmillan’s Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice Book Series. Her book reconsiders discretionary time as a measure of freedom through the concept of temporal autonomy as developed through the Aristotelian-Marxist and critical theory traditions. Her research is further enriched by the respective contributions of feminist, post-colonial, and critical race theory. Her current research focuses on border violence through the lens of settler colonialism and Critical Indigenous Theory. During the CPCP fellowship, she is completing an article, “The Politics of Spectral Death: Settler Colonialism and Anti-Indian Violence in a United States Reservation Border Town,” as part of a larger book project titled, A Refusal of Solidarity: Tribal Sovereignty and the American Liberal Democratic Settler-State, which considers the refusal of solidarity as a form of political resistance against the temporal and spatial boundaries defined by the liberal democratic settler-state.