Robert Nichols is Professor of History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz. He is the author of Theft is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory (2020) and The World of Freedom: Heidegger, Foucault, and the Politics of Historical Ontology (2014). Before joining UCSC, he held faculty posts at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities) and the University of Alberta (Canada). He is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Fulbright, Humboldt, Killiam, McKnight, and Trudeau Foundations, as well as the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.