Each year, the Caucus for Critical Political Science (CCPS) recognizes a progressive political scientist with a long, successful career as a writer, teacher, and activist. In 2024, the awards committee recognized two scholars, Nancy S. Love and Bradley J. Macdonald, with the Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award.
Nancy S. Love has been a professor at Appalachian State University in North Carolina since 2009 and, for twenty-five years before that, taught at Pennsylvania State University. Her teaching and research emphasize political theory, especially critical theory, democratic theory, and feminist theory. She has received numerous awards for her teaching.
Her first book, Marx, Nietzsche, and Modernity (1986), discusses Marx’s critique of capitalist alienation and Nietzsche’s critique of ascetic ideals as overlapping but ultimately incompatible critiques of modernity. Since the 1990s, Professor Love has focused primarily on politics and aesthetics, with specific emphasis on music. Her book Musical Democracy (2006) explores the...
