Books
The Virtues of Violence: Democracy Against Disintegration in Modern France (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020)
Edited Works
“Violence,” a special issue of New Political Science 44, no. 1 (2022), including editor’s introduction, “Violence: Introduction to the Special Issue,” pp. 27-41. Republished as Kevin Duong, ed. Violence: A Reappraisal, New York: Routledge, 2023.
Journal Articles
“Decolonization and World Order,” Political Theory 53, no. 4 (2025): 557-593.
“The Sorcerer’s Apprentices of Interwar France,” History of European Ideas 49, no. 8 (2023): 1204-1219.
“Freud sous les tropiques,” Les Cahiers philosophiques de Strasbourg no. 50 « Théorie Critique Transnationale » (2021): 13-52.
“Universal Suffrage as Decolonization.” American Political Science Review 115, no. 2 (2021): 412-428.
“The Left and Henri Bergson,” French Politics 18, no. 4 (2020): 359-379.
“What Was Universal Suffrage?” Theory & Event 23, no. 1 (2020): 29-65.
“No Social Revolution Without Sexual Revolution,” Political Theory 47, no. 6 (2019): 809-835.
“The Demands of Glory: Tocqueville and Terror in Algeria,” The Review of Politics 80, no. 1 (2018): 31-55
“The People as a Natural Disaster: Redemptive Violence in Jacobin Political Thought,” American Political Science Review 111, no. 4 (2017): 786-800.
“‘Does Democracy End in Terror?’ Transformations of Antitotalitarianism in Postwar France,” Modern Intellectual History 14, no. 2 (2017): 537-563.
“What Does Queer Theory Teach Us About Intersectionality?” Politics & Gender 8, no. 3 (2012): 370-86.
Magazine Writing, Reviews, and Essays
“Apostles of Golden Love: A Dossier on the Rights of Eros,” forthcoming in Parapraxis, Winter 2025/26.
“How to Build a Wonder of the World,” Public Books, October 29, 2024.
“We Know About Che! We Know About Fanon!” in Made in Harlem: Lafargue Clinic Remixed!, zine published by Maysles Documentary Center, August 2024.
“Broke Psychoanalysis. In Memory of Harlem’s Lafargue Clinic,” Parapraxis, Winter 2023/24. Online, January 8, 2024.
“Flora Tristan: Radical Socialist, Feminist, and First Internationalist,” Age of Revolutions, June 17, 2019.
“Flash Mob: Revolution, Lightning, and the People’s Will,” The Public Domain Review: Selected Essays, Vol. 5 (PDR Press, 2018). Online, November 9, 2017.
Academic Book Reviews and Review Essays
“Introduction” to H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Roundtable Review 16-48: Kevin D. Pham, Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization, 14 July 2025.
“Robespierre: The Man Who Divides Us the Most. By Marcel Gauchet. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022.” Perspective on Politics 20, no. 4 (2022): 1442-1444.
“Resolutely Black: Conversations with Françoise Vergès and Kafka’s Monkey and Other Phantoms of Africa.” Philosophy and Global Affairs 2, no. 1 (2022): 213-219.
“Praxis and Revolution: A Theory of Social Transformation. By Eva von Redecker.” Forthcoming in Contemporary Political Theory.
“Collins, Jacob. The Anthropological turn: French Political Thought After 1968. U of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.” Contemporary French Civilization 45, no. 3-4 (2020): 403-405.
“Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity. By Massimiliano Tomba. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019″. Perspectives on Politics 18, no. 1 (2020): 237-238.
“In Defense of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution. By Sophie Wahnich. Translated by David Fernbach. London: Verso, 2012,” The Journal of Politics 78, no. 4 (2016): e21-e22.
Occasional Writing, Podcasts
“Broke Psychoanalysis: Harlem’s Lafargue Clinic feat. Kevin Duong,” Ordinary Unhappiness, episode 53, May 18, 2024.
“Podcast: Political Mythologies,” The Hedgehog Review, March 10, 2022.
“Episode 3.6: Universal Suffrage: From Revolutionary Project to Minimalist Politics – Kevin Duong,” The Andrea Mitchell Center Podcast, December 3, 2021.
“The Virtues of Violence,” Political Theory Review, October 14, 2020.
“The Virtues of Violence,” New Books Network, May 26, 2020.
“Gender Trouble in France,” Interview with Camille Robcis. Jacobin, December 8, 2014.