Aemann Lin-McCornack is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Politics with an interest in political theory, comparative politics, and comparative political thought. Their dissertation studies the intellectual history of sole rulership in the late Warring States period in Early China (453–221 BCE) and in Classical Greece (480–323 BCE). Their work is published (forthcoming) under the journal Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought, titled "Inegalitarian Institutional Design in Late Plato: Synousiai as ‘Festive Gathering’ and ‘Epistemic Colloquium’ in the Minos and the Laws."

Aemann is a current recipient of the Graduate Prize Fellow under UCHV. They hold a B.A. in Classics and Politics (Double Major) from Reed College (summa cum laude).