Raia Prokhovnik (born 7 May 1951),[1] is Reader in Politics at the Open University's Faculty of Social Sciences, for their Department of Politics and International Studies,[2] and founding editor of the journal Contemporary Political Theory.
[3][4] She is the chair of the OU's interdisciplinary politics module, Living political ideas,[5] and contributed to other modules including Power, dissent, equality: understanding contemporary politics.
[2] Her first degree was in political science and history from the University of New South Wales, Australia (1974), and her MSc and PhD, Rhetoric and Philosophy in Hobbes's Leviathan, are from the London School of Economics (1976 and 1980).
[6] Prokhovnik spent six years teaching and research at Royal Holloway, University of London, and at the University of Southampton.
She joined the Open University in 2000.