Soren Dudley is a PhD candidate in the Harvard Department of Government, where she studies political theory and the history of political thought. Her dissertation theorizes the concept of “hyper-politics”— roughly, something that looks and feels like politics but is not politics. She exposes this theme in several theorists of modernity, locating it alongside the emergence of commercial society and the later development of industrial capitalism. Her dissertation also explores contemporary expressions of hyper-politics, arguing that hyper-politics is a key feature of depoliticization in neoliberal society. Her research interests broadly include Marxist political thought, politics and aesthetic experience, and democratic theory. She received . B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Macalester College in 2016.