Thomas Beaumont is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University – San Antonio. He teaches courses in Peace and Conflict Studies, political theory, and American politics, most recently including Foundations of Peace and Conflict Studies, American Political Thought, Politics of Truth, and Texas Government. He is excited to expand the Peace and Conflict Studies Minor offered by the political science program with new courses in the coming semesters.

Dr. Beaumont s research is situated across the fields of phenomenology, affect theory, and trauma studies and focuses on interrogations of contemporary subjectivities and their implications for political and social violence. His current projects examine the role of sovereignty in shaping truth commissions during processes of post-conflict reconciliation and the relationships between practices of mourning, memorials to the war dead, and public art.  

Recent publications include:

Beaumont, T. E., & Sanders, A. (2024). The necropolitics of military amnesty: Peacebuilding and othering in Northern Ireland. Security Dialogue, 55(5), 462–478. https://doi.org/10.1177/09670106241236056.

Beaumont, T. E. (2023). Necropolitical branding: Building communities of preemptive violence. Critical Military Studies, 9(4), 513–531. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23337486.2022.2156838.

Beaumont, T. E. (2021). The phenomenology of redemptive violence. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 45(4), 184–199. https://doi.org/10.1177/0304375421999175.