Professor Erlenbusch-Anderson is a critical theorist whose work is situated at the intersection of political theory, philosophy (with an emphasis on political philosophy and contemporary European philosophy), history, and conflict/terrorism studies. She is one of the most talented political theorists of her generation, and she holds a joint appointment with the Department of Political Science. Her primary research focus is the development of a philosophically rigorous and empirically grounded account of terrorism useful for contemporary analysis. She is working on a book titled Traitors to Forgetting: A Genealogy of White Supremacist Terrorism in the United States, which combines the tools of critical race scholarship and philosophical genealogy to tell a new story of American terrorism. Her first book was Genealogies of Terrorism: Revolution, State Violence, Empire (Columbia University Press, 2018).