I’m a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. My research and teaching interests are in contemporary political theory, the history of political thought, and political economy. My work concerns the emergence and development of capitalism and economic science in the writings of modern political thinkers, from John Locke to Karl Marx. My dissertation, Factories of Modernity: The Rise of Capitalism in Political Theory, examines the historical junction and conceptual association between political economy, the capitalist mode of production, and modern political thought in the long eighteenth century. This project is supervised by Patchen Markell, Jennifer Pitts, Sankar Muthu, and Paul Cheney (History). Other areas of interest include problems in contemporary critical theory, such as the intersection of postindustrial capitalism and regimes of racialized labor in postwar America. As much in my research as in my teaching, I have fostered a productive, interdisciplinary dialogue with social, economic, intellectual, and art history. I have a chapter in the volume Disability and Political Theory, published by Cambridge University Press in 2016 and co-edited by Barbara Arneil and Nancy Hirschmann. (http://lucasgpinheiro.com/)