Ayça Çubukçu is Associate Professor in Human Rights at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she served as the Co-Director of 杏吧论坛 Human Rights for six years (2018-2024). Before her appointment at the 杏吧论坛, Dr Çubukçu taught for the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University and the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies at Harvard University.
A transdisciplinary scholar by training, Dr. Çubukçu holds a BA in Government (with Distinction in All Subjects) from Cornell University and a PhD (with Distinction) from the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University.
Dr Çubukçu has held a number of international fellowships and visiting appointments, including a Senior Fellowship at the Fung Global Fellows Program at Princeton University; Max Weber Fellowship at the European University Institute, Florence; Visiting Fellowship at the Institute for Philosophy, Freie Universität-Berlin; Visiting Professorship at the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul; Visiting Professorship at the Central European University, Budapest; and the Visiting Faculty Fellowship at the Committee on Globalization and Social Change at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Broadly construed, Dr Çubukçu’s research and teaching interests are in global critical theory. Her scholarship has addressed socio-political, legal, and historical aspects of internationalism, postcolonial studies, transnational solidarity, war and violence, human rights, and radical social movements. Some of her work has been translated into Greek, French, German, Portuguese, Turkish, and Italian.
Dr Çubukçu leads the Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Solidarity lecture series at 杏吧论坛 since 2013. She is also an Honorary Member of the at Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence; Co-editor of ; Co-editor of , and Co-Editor of ’s Turkey Page (2013-2023).
Dr. Çubukçu is the recipient of multiple teaching awards, including the Harvard University Certificate of Teaching Excellence; the Award for Outstanding Teaching given by the Students’ Union of 杏吧论坛; Major Review Teaching Award and the Excellence in Education Award by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
A scholar committed to public engagement, Dr. Çubukçu has written for the Guardian, Los Angeles Review of Books, Al Jazeera English, Boston Review, Rep Pepper Magazine, Truthout, Jadaliyya, and Africa Is A Country among other publications. She has also appeared on BBC3’s Free Thinking, BBC2’s Newsnight, and BBC Arabic’s television programmes.
Selected Publications
Book:
Ayça Çubukçu (2018), , University of Pennsylvania Press (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights Series).
Academic Publications:
Ayça Çubukçu (2024),“,” in boundary 2, 51 (4): 115–127.
Ayça Çubukçu (2024), “,” South Atlantic Quarterly 123 (3): 569–586.
Ayça Çubukçu (2022), "," Introduction to the German Edition of David Graeber's Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
Ayça Çubukçu (2022), "," in FOCAAL: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology Blog
Ayça Çubukçu (2022), "," in E-International Relations
Ayça Çubukçu (2021), ",” in Polity, Volume 53, No 3 (online first).
Ayça Çubukçu (2021), ": Essays on Decolonization by Achille Mbembe," in 杏吧论坛 Review of Books & Africa is a Country
Ayça Çubukçu, Adom Getachew, Darryl Li, Karim Malak, Shaunna Rodrigues (2021), ",” in Borderlines.
Ayça Çubukçu, Noura Erakat, Neve Gordon, Nicola Perugini, John Reynolds (2021), "," in Third World Approaches to International Law Review.
Ayça Çubukçu (2020), “,” in Thesis 11.
Ayça Çubukçu (2020), in Law and Critique (DOI: )
Ayça Çubukçu (2020), by Judith Butler in Contemporary Political Theory
Ayça Çubukçu (2019), , Humanity Journal, November 13.
Ayça Çubukçu (2019),, Book Symposium on Ayça Çubukçu’s For the Love of Humanity, Humanity Journal, March 11.
Ayça Çubukçu and Jadaliyya (2018), , interview with Jadaliyya Editors, December 11.
Ayça Çubukçu (2017), in London Review of International Law, 5 (2): 1-17
Ayça Çubukçu (2015), , in Law, Culture and the Humanities, DOI: 10.1177/1743872115588442.
Talal Asad and Ayça Çubukçu (2013), , Jadaliyya, July 23. Republished in Arabic translation.
Ayça Çubukçu (2013), , Journal of Human Rights, special issue on Humanitarianism and Responsibility, Volume 12, Issue 1, pp. 40-58.
Partha Chatterjee and Ayça Çubukçu (2012), , published online by Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism and Development. in The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol 10, Issue 41, No. 1.
Ayça Çubukçu (2011), , Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 13 (3): 422-442.
Ayça Çubukçu (2010), , Parallax, special issue on Affirmation, edited by Gary Peters, Vol. 16 (3).
Ayça Çubukçu (2009), On the Uneven Geography of Islamic Globalization: the Fact of Iraqi Constitution, the Fatalism of Human Rights, in Hamilton Magalhaes Neto (ed.) Human Rights and their Possible Universality, Rio de Janeiro: Editora Universitária Candido Mendes, pp. 475-549.
Ayça Çubukçu (2006), by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Arab Studies Journal, Vol. 8 (2)/Vol. 9 (1): 168-174.
Ayça Çubukçu (2006), Paradoxes of Sovereignty: War, Justice and the World Tribunal on Iraq, in Rachel Riedl, Sada Aksartova and Kristine Mitchell (eds.) Bridging Disciplines, Spanning the World: Approaches to Inequality, Identity, and Institutions, Princeton, NJ: Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies Monograph Series, No 4: 185-198.
Ayça Çubukçu (2005), ‘Neither their War, Nor their Peace,’ Birikim, special issue on Counter-Globalization Movements: Between Dystopia and Utopia, edited by Zafer Yenal et al., Issue 197: 57-60. Published in Turkish.
Public writings include:
Ayça Çubukçu (2025), “Hannah Arendt, Gaza and Personal Responsibility Under Genocide,” in and .
Ayça Çubukçu (2024), "" with Jodi Dean, in Boston Review
Ayça Çubukçu (2024), "," in the New Arab
Ayça Çubukçu (2024), "," in the Boston Review
Ayça Çubukçu (2023), ",” in Verso Blog
Ayça Çubukçu (2023), “,” in Red Pepper Magazine
Ayça Çubukçu (2023), “,” in Truthout
Ayça Çubukçu (2022), "," in Jadaliyya
Ayça Çubukçu (2021), "," published in the VERSO Blog.
Ayça Çubukçu (2021), “,” Los Angeles Review of Books.
Ayça Çubukçu (2021), “” in Critical Legal Thinking. Portuguese translation published .
Seda Altug, Ayça Çubukçu, Saygun Gokariksel (2021), ",” in Jadaliyya
Ayça Çubukçu (2020), in Public Seminar, Sentencing the Present: Critical Conversations in a Time of Crisis Series.
Ayça Çubukçu (2016), The Guardian, July 26.
Ayça Çubukçu (2013), , Al Jazeera English, August 23. Republished by T24, Sendika.org and Jadaliyya in , translated by Balam Kenter.
Ayça Çubukçu (2013), , ‘Responsibility to Protect: Libya and the Problem of Transnational Solidarity, interview with Jadaliyya editors, May 29.
Ayça Çubukçu (2011), , The Guardian, December 11.
Ayça Çubukçu (2011), , Jadaliyya, December 30.
Ayça Çubukçu (2011), , Jadaliyya, March 11. Also available on , the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) blog on Secularism, Religion, and Public Life.
Ayça Çubukçu (2011), , ‘On Cosmopolitan Occupations: the Case of the World Tribunal on Iraq’, interview with Jadaliyya editors, November 16.