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Bonnie Honig

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Research Professor

  • 750 N. Lake Shore Drive
  • 4th Floor
  • Chicago, IL 60611

Joint appointment

Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor, Political Science, Northwestern University

Education

Ph.D., Political Science, Johns Hopkins University M.Sc., London School of Economics

Curriculum vitae

Bio

Bonnie Honig, Research Professor at ABF is also Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor of Political Science, at Northwestern, and appointed (by courtesy) at Northwestern Law School. Working in legal and…

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Research focus

Normative political theory, contemporary democratic theory with particular attention to the area of law and politics. Research addresses how constitutions, legal norms, the centrality of rights, and cultural politics operate to help or hinder spontaneous and organized collective actions in democracies.

Projects

Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy
Latest finding: May 15, 2008
This project is a book that examines what opportunities might exist within the frame of emergency politics for democratic action. How is executive branch power dependent, even in emergency…

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Publications

“Between Decision and Deliberation: Political Paradox in Democratic Theory”
American Political Science Review
“Another Cosmopolitanism? Law and Politics in the New Europe”
Oxford University Press
“The Miracle of Metaphor: Rethinking the State of Exception with Rosenzweig and Schmitt”
diacritics, special issue: Taking Exception to the State of Exception, guest eds.

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Presentations

Antigone’s Anachronism? Homeric Mourning in Democratic Athens
Oct 2007
The Time of Rights: Emergent Thoughts in an Emergent Setting
Dec 2006
Law and Politics in the New Europe
Dec 2006

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Professional Service & Recognition

  • Associate Editor, Law and Social Inquiry