ISAAC BALBUS
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Department of Political Science, M/C 276
1102A BSB
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL 60607

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Isaac Balbus is Professor of Political Science and Director of Undergraduate Studies in that department. He received his Ph.D. in 1970 from the University of Chicago. His primary interests are critical, feminist, ecological, and psychoanalytic theory. He is the author of The Dialectics of Legal Repression (Russell Sage Foundation, 1973), co-winner of the 1974 C. Wright Mills Prize of the Society for the Study of Social Problems; Marxism and Domination (Princeton University Press, 1982); Emotional Rescue: The Theory and Practice of a Feminist Father (Routledge, 1998), and Mourning and Modernity: Essays in the Psychoanalysis of Contemporary Society (Other Press, 2005). His articles have appeared in Theory & Society, Praxis International, Telos, Politics & Society, and Law & Society Review; and have been anthologized in Feminism as Critique, After Foucault, Marxism and Law, The Sociology of Law, and The Politics and Society Reader, among others. In 2006 Professor Balbus received the UIC Award for Excellence in Teaching.