Adam Dylan Hefty

Biography

Dr. Adam Hefty is an assistant professor of humanities and social sciences in the Core Curriculum program at PMU. Before joining PMU Dr. Hefty was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California Humanities Research Institute and taught in the Political Science department at San Francisco State University. He completed his Ph.D. in History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz (with a designated emphasis in Philosophy) in 2013. His dissertation, Labor and Lamentation: A Genealogy of Acedia, Alienated Labor, and Depressed Affects, examines the social structures of dejected affective states and work from the medieval era to the present.

Research Interest

Critical social and political theory, Cultural studies, Continental philosophy, Sociology/history of mental health, Sociology/history of work, Political economy