U-M Political Science doctoral student David Suell will present, "Grounding radical democracy: Nyerere, Cabral, and narrating the anti-colonial state." Suell's research and teaching focuses on critical theory, comparative political theory, and African politics and political thought.

The Political Theory Workshop provides a venue for political theory-oriented scholarship broadly construed. Participants include theoretically-inclined members of social science and humanities departments across the University of Michigan, as well as institutions throughout southwest Michigan.