Kinch Hoekstra is part of a joint appointment with the Jurisprudence and Social Policy program of the Law School and Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley. After beginning his undergraduate career at Deep Springs College in the high desert of eastern California, Hoekstra received a B.A. with highest honors in Philosophy and English from Brown in 1987. He subsequently received his D.Phil in Philosophy from Oxford in 1998. He has been a Lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford since then and in 2005 became Senior Tutor at Balliol College (U.S. equivalent to Dean of Academic Affairs). He has also held visiting positions at Deep Springs, UCLA, and Princeton. Hoekstra is a political theorist widely recognized for his innovative and masterful scholarship on Hobbes. His major work Thomas Hobbes and the Creation of Order is expected to be published by Oxford University Press this year.