Michael Ure is a Senior Lecturer in Politics in the School of Social Sciences. He has research expertise in two fields:

• Political & Social Theory
• Modern European Philosophy

He is the lead investigator of the ARC Discovery grant 'Reinventing Philosophy as a Way of Life' (2014-2019) and the main editor of a Bloomsbury book series dedicated to this topic (with Keith-Ansell-Pearson and Matthew Sharpe). 

He is also the lead investigator of a 2019-2020 Monash Interdisciplinary Research support grant, 'Anger: From Anti-Social to Pro-Social Behaviour' (with Alan Dorin, Nicholas Faulkner, and Julian Garcia).

In 2005 he completed a PhD at The Ashworth Centre for Social Theory (University of Melbourne). From 2007 to 2010 he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for the History of European Discourses at the University of Queensland.

Current Supervisions

1. Doctorate by Research (Joint Monash-Warwick): 'Foucault and the Politics of Self-Government'

Candidate: Irene Dal Poz

Supervisors: Dr. Michael Ure (Main) and Professor Miguel Beistegui (Main, Warwick)

2.  Doctorate by Research (Joint Monash-Warwick): 'Nietzsche: Art versus Truth'

Candidate: Robert Moseley

Supervisors: Dr. Michael Ure (Main) and Professor Keith Ansell-Pearson (Main, Warwick)

3. Doctorate by Research (Joint Monash-ITTB Mumbai): 'The Figure of the Vigilante Woman'

Candidate: Ananya Dasgupta

Supervisors: Dr. Michael Ure (Main) and Professor Siby K. George (Main, ITTB)

4. Doctorate by Research: 'Sociality in Nietzsche'

Candidate: Neil Durrant

Supervisors: Dr. Michael Ure (Main) and Dr. Paul Muldoon(Associate)

5. Doctorate by Research: 'Exploring the application of Nietzsche's ideas about value, agency and culture in moral philosophy'

Candidate: Andre Okawara

Supervisors: Dr. Michael Ure (Main) and Professor Toby Handfield (Associate)

 Completed Supervisions

1. Doctorate by Research (Joint Monash-Warwick): 'On the Politics of Life: Michel Foucault and Georges Canguilhem On Life And Norms' (2019)

Dr. Federico Testa

Supervisors: Dr. Michael Ure (Main) and Professor Miguel Beistegui Ansell-Pearson (Main, Warwick)

2. Doctorate by Research (Joint Monash-Warwick): 'The Affirmation of Eros: Passion and Eternity in Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Gay Science' (2018)

Dr. Thomas Ryan

 Supervisors: Dr. Michael Ure (Main) and Professor Keith Ansell-Pearson (Main, Warwick)

3. Doctorate by Research (Joint Monash-Warwick): 'Cultivating Our Passionate Attachments Self-Cultivation in Practical Philosophy' (2018)

Dr. Matthew Dennis

 Supervisors: Dr. Michael Ure (Main) and Professor Keith Ansell-Pearson (Main, Warwick)

4. Masters by Research: 'Myth of the Mythless: Why the Left and Politics Still Need Mythology' (2017)

Liyan Gao

Supervisors: Dr. Paul Muldoon (Main) and Dr. Michael Ure (Associate)

5. Doctorate by Research: 'After the apology: responsive narratives and the 2008 Apology to Australia's Stolen Generations' (2016)

Dr. Kate Maher

Supervisors: Dr. Michael Ure (Main) and Associate Professor Mark Davis     (Associate)

6. Masters by Research: 'Conspiracy Narratives in Contemporary Society' (2015)

Nicholas Ulbrick

Supervisors: Dr. Luke Howie (Main) and Dr. Michael Ure (Associate)

7. Doctorate by Research: 'The psychology of cosmopolitan behaviour: emotions, norms and social identification' (2014)

Dr. Nicholas Faulkner

Supervisors: Professor James Walter (Main) and Dr. Michael Ure (Associate)

8. Doctorate by Research: 'Greek Tragedy and Contemporary Democracy' (University of Queensland, 2010)

Dr. Mark Chou

Supervisors: Professor Roland Bleiker (Main) and Dr. Michael Ure (Associate)

Honours Supervisions

2015: Rufus Davis Award - Best Politics Honours Thesis:

'The Politics of Nihilism: Political Existentialism and Political Humanism in Nietzsche and Camus'

Robert Moseley

Supervisor: Dr. Michael Ure

2013: Rufus Davis Award - Best Politics Honours Thesis:

'Reclaiming Conflict in the Political'

Octavia Bryant

Supervisor: Dr. Michael Ure

2012 Rufus Davis Award - Best Politics Honours Thesis:

'Freedom in Foucault: The ethics of aesthetics'

Kylie Dolan

Supervisor: Dr. Michael Ure

Monash Teaching Commitments

ATS 3719 Modern Political Thought

ATS 4328 Grand Theories of Politics and International Relations

ATS 2276/3276 Modern Italian Political Thought (Arts Semester in Prato Program)