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Chandran KUKATHAS

Full-time Faculty
Professor of Political Science
School of Social Sciences SOSS

Chandran Kukathas is Professor of Political Science at Singapore Management University. He was Dean of SMU’s School of Social Sciences and Lee Kong Chian Chair Professor of Political Science from 2019 to 2024 . Prior to joining SMU, he was Head, Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) from 2015 to 2019. He also served as the Chair of Political Theory in the Department of Government and as Warden of High Holborn and Grosvenor House Halls of Residence at LSE. Before his appointment at LSE, Chandran was Neal A. Maxwell Professor of Political Theory, Public Policy and Public Service at the University of Utah and has taught at the University of New South Wales, Oxford University, and the Australian National University.

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H-Index (All Time)
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Chandran Kukathas is an internationally renowned political theorist whose influential scholarship on liberalism, multiculturalism, and immigration has shaped contemporary debates on freedom, diversity, and justice.

Widely recognized for advancing pluralist and critical perspectives on liberalism and multiculturalism; combines rigorous historical scholarship with contemporary relevance; influential in shaping policy and academic discourse on immigration, diversity, and freedom; highly regarded as a teacher, mentor, and public intellectual.

Focused research areas include Theoretical foundations of liberalism and multiculturalism; the ethics and politics of immigration; toleration and diversity; the relationship between freedom and state power; critical engagement with thinkers such as Hayek, Rawls, Hume, and Bayle.
Areas of Expertise
Political theoryliberalismmulticulturalismimmigrationfreedomjusticetolerationhistory of political thoughtclassical and contemporary liberal philosophy.
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Chandran Kukathas is Professor of Political Science at Singapore Management University. He was Dean of SMU’s School of Social Sciences and Lee Kong Chian Chair Professor of Political Science from 2019 to 2024 . Prior to joining SMU, he was Head, Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) from 2015 to 2019. He also served as the Chair of Political Theory in the Department of Government and as Warden of High Holborn and Grosvenor House Halls of Residence at LSE. Before his appointment at LSE, Chandran was Neal A. Maxwell Professor of Political Theory, Public Policy and Public Service at the University of Utah and has taught at the University of New South Wales, Oxford University, and the Australian National University.