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Banu Bargu is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College where she teaches political theory. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Government at Cornell University in January 2008. She has been the recipient of numerous teaching and research awards, including the John M. and Emily B. Clark Award for Distinguished Teaching, Luigi Einaudi Fellowship, and the Janice N. and Milton J. Esman Prize for Best Dissertation. She is currently finishing her book manuscript, "Human Weapons: The Death Fast Struggle of Turkey, 2000-2007." Her research and teaching interests include modern, late modern, and critical theory, theories of sovereignty, violence (particularly different forms of political self-sacrifice), labor, and democracy. |
