Biography:Courtney Jung

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Short description: Political science professor and writer


Courtney Jung
EducationTufts University (MESc)

Columbia University (MA)

Yale University (PhD)

Courtney Jung is a professor at the Department of Political Science of the University of Toronto, where she holds the George Ignatieff Chair, Department of Political Science.[1] Her research focuses on critical theory and identity formation at the intersection of contemporary political theory and comparative politics.[1]

She held visiting positions at Central European University, Yale University, and University of Cape Town before joining the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto.[1]

Awards

  • National Endowment for the Humanities (2001–2002)[2]
  • Mellon Foundation (2002–2004)[2]
  • Fulbright New Century Scholars Program (2003)[2]
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (2009–2015)[2]
  • Jackman Humanities Institute (2017–2018)[2]

Publications

  • Then I Was Black: South African Political Identities in Transition (Yale University Press, 2000)
  • The Moral Force of Indigenous Politics: Critical liberalism and the Zapatistas (Cambridge University Press , 2008)
  • Lactivism: how feminists and fundamentalists, hippies and yuppies, and physicians and politicians made breastfeeding big business and bad policy (Basic Books, 2015)[3][4]

References