Adam Dylan Hefty

Assistant Professor
Humanities & Social Sciences
Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University
Saudi Arabia

Biography

Dr. Adam Hefty is an assistant professor of humanities and social sciences in the Core Curriculum program at PMU. Before joining PMU Dr. Hefty was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California Humanities Research Institute and taught in the Political Science department at San Francisco State University. He completed his Ph.D. in History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz (with a designated emphasis in Philosophy) in 2013. His dissertation, Labor and Lamentation: A Genealogy of Acedia, Alienated Labor, and Depressed Affects, examines the social structures of dejected affective states and work from the medieval era to the present.

Research Intrest

Critical social and political theory, Cultural studies, Continental philosophy, Sociology/history of mental health, Sociology/history of work, Political economy

List of Publications
AD Hefty (2011) After the Oakland General Strike, Tactical Debates Emerge: Let 99 Flowers Blossom.” Solidarity Webzine.
AD Hefty (2013)Labor and lamentation: A genealogy of acedia, alienated labor, and depressed affects. University of California, Santa Cruz.
AD Hefty (2014) Cultivating a New Normal: Mood Disorders in the DSM-III to -5 Era PhaenEx 9:2