Minervah Katherine Wathke is a PhD student in Political Science at the Truman School of Government and Public Affairs, University of Missouri. She holds a Master's degree in History and a Bachelor's degree in Political Science, with minors in Philosophy and History, from Emporia State University.
Minervah is from Topeka, Kansas, and has lived most of her life in northeast Kansas. Her research focuses on the interplay between language, politics, and identity at a societal level, including how languages of domination and hierarchy reproduce themselves into new spaces and reshape political reality. Her ideas are informed by her background in ph…
Minervah Katherine Wathke is a PhD student in Political Science at the Truman School of Government and Public Affairs, University of Missouri. She holds a Master's degree in History and a Bachelor's degree in Political Science, with minors in Philosophy and History, from Emporia State University.
Minervah is from Topeka, Kansas, and has lived most of her life in northeast Kansas. Her research focuses on the interplay between language, politics, and identity at a societal level, including how languages of domination and hierarchy reproduce themselves into new spaces and reshape political reality. Her ideas are informed by her background in philosophy, particularly of Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Guy Debord, Gilles Deleuze, Antonio Negri, and Jean Baudrillard.
Supervisors: Dr. Bryce Reeder and Dr. Charles Zug
Phone: 6207579778
Address: Columbia, MO 65203
