Dr. Amy Gais (she/her) is a political theorist specializing in political freedom, specifically the question of how individuals resist and confront oppression. Dr. Gais is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Comparative Literature and Thought at Washington University in St. Louis. Previously, she was a Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry Postdoctoral Fellow at the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities at WashU. Dr. Gais received her Ph.D. in Political Science with Distinction from Yale University, where she was the recipient of the Robert C. Wood Prize and an American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices finalist. She is the author of The Coerced Conscience (Cambridge University Press, 2024), and she is working on a second book project on freedom and dissimulation in African American political thought. Her work has been published by Political Theory, Perspectives on Politics, American Political Thought, among other outlets, and funded by the Andrew J. Mellon Foundation and the Beinecke Rare Books & Manuscripts Library. Her public-facing essays have been published in TIME, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Inside Higher Ed, and the Pittsburgh Review of Books. Her email is amy.gais@wustl.edu.