Emma Schmidt is a fourth-year PhD candidate in political theory and international relations. Her dissertation explores the categories of nature and artifice in Hannah Arendt and Herbert Marcuse’s critiques of technology, considering how they might be applied to contemporary debates about AI and other technologies with the potential to profoundly impact politics and human life more broadly.
Emma received a BA in Politics and Government from the University of Puget Sound in 2018 and an MA in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame in 2023. She has co-published an article in Applied Research in Quality of Life, presented work at conferences, including the American Political Science Association and World Congress of Philosophy, and is currently a fellow at the Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab.
Originally published by at reviewofpolitics.nd.edu on February 15, 2025.