Ming Kit Wong

I am a DPhil student in Political Theory focusing on anti-utopian liberal thought since the mid-twentieth century. My doctoral project is supervised by Professor David Leopold, and it is jointly funded by Magdalen College and the DPIR.

I have remained at Oxford to pursue the DPhil after completing the MSc in Political Theory Research under the supervision of Professor Teresa Bejan. I additionally hold an MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History from Cambridge, where I first read History as an undergraduate.

Alongside my academic work, I currently serve as Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Political Review, an Oxford-based publication covering current affairs, political theory, and international relations.

Research

My research is at the intersection of twentieth-century intellectual history and contemporary political thought.

In my current project, I aim both to reconsider postwar liberal attitudes towards utopianism and to improve our understanding of the politics of anti-utopianism. I shall do so principally by examining the thought of Judith Shklar and Richard Rorty.

More broadly, I am keenly interested in methodological debates surrounding the study of intellectual history, as well as the relevance of historiography to contemporary politics.

For more information, including publications, see here.