Lawrie Balfour teaches political theory and American studies at the University of Virginia. The author of Democracy's Reconstruction: Thinking Politically with W. E. B. Du Bois (2011) and The Evidence of Things Not Said: James Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy (2001), she has published numerous articles and book chapters of race, gender, literature, and democracy. Currently she is working on two projects: one on reparations for slavery, Jim Crow, and their legacies; and another on the meanings of freedom in Toni Morrison's novels and essays. She also serves as editor of Political Theory.
