About

Maeve McKeown is a political theorist based in Groningen, the Netherlands. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Political Theory at the interdisciplinary faculty Campus Fryslân, University of Groningen and is a member of the Young Academy Groningen.

As a political theorist, Maeve researches responsibility for global structural injustice. She has published a monograph on this topic, With Power Comes Responsibility: The Politics of Structural Injustice (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024) and an edited volume with Jude Browne, What is Structural Injustice? (Oxford University Press, 2024).

Before joining Campus Fryslân in 2021, she was a Lecturer in Philosophy at Cambridge University from 2019, she held a Junior Research Fellowship at St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, and a Postdoctoral Research fellowship at Justitia Amplificata, Goethe University Frankfurt. She obtained her PhD from UCL (University College London) in 2015. Maeve has published in Philosophy Compass, Contemporary Political Theory, The Journal of Social Philosophy, European Journal of Political Theory and the International Encyclopedia of Ethics.

Maeve is the editor of Stephen Jeffreys’ Playwriting: Structure, Character, How and What to Write (Nick Hern Books, 2019), shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize 2020. She is the co-author of the study guide Page to Stage: Our Country’s Good. She was an editor at New Left Project for three years, and the Administrator, Education Manager and PA to the Artistic Director at Out of Joint Theatre Company.

Maeve is a proud feminist and anti-racist activist. She is the founder of the St Hilda’s Feminist Salon and has been involved in multiple activist organisations. She is originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland.