Sonali Chakravarti is assistant professor of government at Wesleyan University. She received her B.A. from Swarthmore College and her Ph.D in political theory from Yale University. In 2012-2013 she was a Laurance S. Rockefeller fellow at the Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
Her new book "Sing the Rage: Listening to Anger after Mass Violence" (Chicago, 2014) argues for increased engagement with anger in the context of truth commissions because of the ways in which anger reveals information necessary for civic trust. Her work on the emotions, transitional justice, and the law has appeared in Constellations, Theory & Event, and Law, Culture, and Humanities, and in edited volumes. She is currently working on projects about the juSonali Chakravarti is assistant professor of government at Wesleyan University. She received her B.A. from Swarthmore College and her Ph.D in political theory from Yale University. In 2012-2013 she was a Laurance S. Rockefeller fellow at the Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
Her new book "Sing the Rage: Listening to Anger after Mass Violence" (Chicago, 2014) argues for increased engagement with anger in the context of truth commissions because of the ways in which anger reveals information necessary for civic trust. Her work on the emotions, transitional justice, and the law has appeared in Constellations, Theory & Event, and Law, Culture, and Humanities, and in edited volumes. She is currently working on projects about the jury system and about new models for thinking about whistleblowing and civil disobedience....more