Tobold Rollo, Graduate Associate, 2008-
Doctoral Student, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto.
Tobold Rollo’s research employs developments in cognitive psychology, phenomenology, pragmatism, affect and aesthetics to examine the relationship between embodiment and intersubjectivity. He is principally interested in the formation of political and ethical concepts from the perspective of embodied cognition. Tobold’s work utilizes recent advances in the fields of cognitive metaphor and intercorporeal semantics to identify those embodied perceptions which serve as the foundation for diverse political meanings and narratives.
Tobold’s related investigation into the undisclosed affective and perceptual dimensions of intersubjectivity underlying contemporary theories of recognition has been published as a book entitled Embodied Recognition: Toward a Phenomenology of Political Affirmation.
Tobold received his BA in Political Science from the University of British Columbia and his MA in Political Science from the University of Victoria, where he has been nominated for the Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal. He is also a Student Research Affiliate with the SSHRC - MCRI Ethnicity and Democratic Governance Project.
Email: tobold.rollo@utoronto.ca
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