Germaine A. Hoston is Professor of Political Science at the Univerity of California San Diego specializing on comparative political philosophy and theology
Inspired to work on East Asia by her childhood experience living in Japan, Hoston graduated from Princeton University with a Politics major and East Asian Studies minor, then earned her Ph.D. in political science at Harvard University. Her early work focused on nationalism and anarchist and Marxist movements in China and Japan and expanded to include comparative liberation theology.
Her current work is on Neo-Confucianism and modern East Asian and European political philosophy and their relationship to political and economic development. Her most recent publications have appeared in the Political Research Quarterly, Philosophy and Social Criticism, the Journal of International Political Theory, Harvard Theological Review, and Journal of the History of Ideas (where Hoston received the Selma V. Forkosch Award from that journal for the best article of 2024). Fluent in multiple languages, Hoston works with materials in Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Rusian, Biblical Greek, and Latin.
