Prescott-Couch appointed associate professor at Oxford

Alexander Prescott-Couch (Harvard University, PhD 2015) has been appointed Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow, Lincoln College, Oxford University. Prior to his appointment, he had been a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT.

While at Harvard, Prescott-Couch worked with Ned Hall, Selim Berker, Philip Pettit, and Tommie Shelby. His dissertation, "Rational Reconstruction and the Construction of an Interlocutor," combined work in democratic theory and philosophy of science to explore how journalists and social scientists enable our understanding of others through the construction of idealized--purposefully inaccurate--interpretations of their persepctives.