Agneska Bloch is a PhD Candidate in Political Theory at the University of Chicago. Her work lies at the intersection of critical theory, post-structuralism, psychoanalytic theory, and philosophy of history. Her dissertation, tentatively titled The Politics of Disavowal: Power, Knowledge, and Colonial Violence, seeks to recover the psychoanalytic concept of disavowal for contemporary political critique, putting it in dialogue with the work of Michel Foucault. 

Agneska serves as an Editorial Assistant for the American Political Science Review. In 2025-2026, she is a Doctoral Fellow at the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights. Prior to coming to the University of Chicago, Agneska worked in foreign policy with a focus on Europe at the Brookings Institution. She received her BA in Philosophy from Northwestern University in 2019.