Amy Gais is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. She is a political theorist specializing in freedom, specifically the question of how individuals resist oppression. She was the recipient of the Robert C. Wood Prize and an American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices finalist. Her work has been published by Political Theory, Review of Politics, and History of European Ideas, as well as public-facing outlets, such as Inside Higher Ed.