Pınar Kemerli

Assistant Professor of Political Studies

Primary Academic Program: Politics

Biography: Pınar Kemerli teaches political theory, non-Western political thought, and Middle East politics at Bard College. Her interdisciplinary research addresses theories and practices of resistance, decolonization, violence/nonviolence, and religion and politics, and she offers courses on these topics. She is currently completing a book manuscript on war resistance and conscientious objection in Turkey, and her articles and reviews have appeared in a range of journals including Political Theory, New Political Science, Radical Philosophy, Theory & Event, and International Journal of Middle East Studies.

BA, Boğaziçi University, Turkey; MAs, Goldsmiths College of the University of London and Cornell University; PhD, the Department of Government at Cornell University.
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