Igor Shoikhedbrod is an Assistant Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at St. Francis Xavier University. He obtained his PhD at the University of Toronto in 2018, his M.A in Political Science from York University in 2011, and he also holds a B.A from the University of Toronto with a concentration in Ethics, Society, and Law. His doctoral dissertation was awarded the Stephen E. Bronner Dissertation award in 2019 "for an outstanding Political Science dissertation finished within the previous year of the American Political Science Association Meeting which exemplifies the commitment to use scholarship in the struggle for a better world." In 2021, Igor won the Domenico Losurdo International Prize for his essay, "From Hegel to Nietzsche: Domenico Losurdo's Complex Relationship with Liberalism." 

Prior to his appointment at St. Francis Xavier University, Igor taught courses in political theory, legal theory, ethics, law, and political economy at Dalhousie University, as well as at the University of Toronto, where he won two awards for teaching excellence.  Igor is the author of Revisiting Marx’s Critique of Liberalism: Rethinking Justice, Legality and Rights (2019) with Palgrave Macmillan, as well as several scholarly articles and reviews in Contemporary Political Theory, The European Journal of Political Theory, History of Political Thought, Journal of Social Philosophy, Res Philosophica, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Political Studies Review, The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Critical Analysis of Law, Critical Horizons, The Hegel Bulletin, The Owl of Minerva, Historical Materialism, Rethinking Marxism, and the Marx and Philosophy Review of Books. 

Igor is currently working on three different book projects. The first book project is an edited collection of essays on Kojève and Law, which is forthcoming in Routledge's "Nomikoi" series. The second book project is a jointly edited and translated anthology, The Revolution of Law: Developments in Soviet Legal Theory, 1917-1931, forthcoming with Brill.  The final book project is a monograph that is concerned with global financial capitalism and crises of legal form.