Matthew Longo
Senior Assistant Professor
- Name
- Dr. M.B. Longo
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 6601
- m.b.longo@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-2450-4903
Matthew Longo is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Leiden University.
Matthew Longo is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Leiden University, where he teaches political theory. His work focuses on problems of borders and migration, with a thematic interest in questions of sovereignty, authority and freedom. He also runs an annual conference on the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt.
He is the author of two books, The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain (W.W. Norton, 2024), which won the 2024 Orwell Prize for Political Writing, and The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11 (Cambridge University Press, 2018), which won the 2018 Charles Taylor Book Award (APSA).
Before joining the faculty at Leiden, he was Clayman Junior Research Fellow in Politics and Political Ideas at St Anne’s College, Oxford. He received his PhD from Yale University, and is the recipient of the 2016 Leo Strauss Award for Best Dissertation in Political Philosophy, given by the American Political Science Association.
You can follow him on Twitter @matthewblongo.
PhD supervision
Matthew Longo is available to supervise PhD students and invites PhD research proposals in the areas of:
- migration & borders
- political theory/philosophy
- interpretive methods
See for more information on PhD positions:
Senior Assistant Professor
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Politieke Wetenschap
- Longo M.B. (2024), The picnic: a dream of freedom and the collapse of the iron curtain. New York: W.W Norton.
- Longo M.B. (2023), Jurisgenerativity in the age of big data. In: Eich S, Jurkevics A, Nathwani N & Siegel N (Eds.), Another Universalism: Seyla Benhabib and the future of critical theory. New Directions in Critical Theory no. 84: Columbia University Press. 294-308.
- Longo M.B. (2023), The “Other” boundary problem. In: Atanassow E., Bateman D. & Bartscherer T. (Eds.), When the people rule: popular sovereignty in theory and practice: Cambridge University Press. 189-203.
- Longo M.B. (2023), Strange sovereignty: fantasies of supremacy and coloniality in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In: Carnes N & Goren L.J. (Eds.), The politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe: University Press of Kansas. 142-153.
- Longo M.B. (2023), Political Theory, the archive, and the problem of authority, PS: Political Science and Politics 57(1): 86-88.
- Longo M.B. (2022), Hannah Arendt: Storyteller, The HA Journal 10: 88-96.
- Zacka B., Ackerly B., Elster J., Gutnick Allen S., Iqtidar H., Longo M.B. & Sagar P. (2020), Political theory with an ethnographic sensibility, Contemporary Political Theory 20(3): 385-418.
- Zacka B., Ackerly B., Elster J., Gutnick-Allen S., Iqtidar H., Longo M. & Sagar P. (2020), Political Theory with an Ethnographic Sensibility, Contemporary Political Theory 19(4): .
- Longo M (2020), Ways of Seeing (The Border). In: Bissonnette A. & Vallet E. (Eds.), Borders and Border Walls: In-Security, Symbolism, Vulnerabilities. London: Routledge. 137-150.
- Longo M (2020), Your Body is a Passport, POLITICO : .
- Longo M.B. & Zacka B. (2019), Political Theory in an Ethnographic Key, American Political Science Review 113(4): 1066-1070.
- Longo M.B. (2019) Book Review: The Shadow of the Wall: Violence and Migration on the U.S.-Mexico Border. Review of: Slack J., Martinez D.E. & Whiteford S.. Journal of Borderlands Studies 35(1): 167-168.
- Longo M.B. (2018), Beyond Sovereign Exclusion: Progressive Alternatives to the Wall, Journal of Latin American Geography 17(3): 266-267.
- Longo M.B. (2018) Book Review: For a Left Populism by Chantal Mouffe. Review of: . LSE Review of Books .
- Longo M.B. (2018), The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Longo M.B. (2017), From Sovereignty to Imperium: Borders, Frontiers and the Specter of Neo-Imperialism, Geopolitics 22(4): 757-771.
- Longo M.B. (2016), A “21st Century Border”? Cooperative Border Controls in the US and EU after 9/11, Journal of Borderlands Studies 31(2): 187-202.
- Longo M.B., Canetti D. & Hite-Rubin N. (2014), A Checkpoint Effect? Evidence from a Natural Experiment on Travel Restrictions in the West Bank, American Journal of Political Science 58(4): 1006-1023.
- Longo M.B. (2013), Right of Way? Defining Freedom of Movement within Democratic Societies. In: Maas W. (Ed.), Democratic Citizenship and the Free Movement of People. Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. 31-56.