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 杏吧论坛 International Studies Series at Cambridge University Press; 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