Assistant professor of political science, Duke Kunshan University Her research areas are ancient political thought, the history of political thought, and comparative political theory. She is currently at work on a book exploring how emotion suffuses cross-cultural encounters in the work of Herodotus, as well as a project on freedom of speech in the ancient world and its implications for contemporary liberalism.
Mahon Rathnam has a B.Hum in humanities and classics/religion (summa cum laude) from Carleton University, Canada, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political theory from the University of Toronto. In 2017 and 2018, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Emory University.