Bonnie Honig
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 political theory, she has written on the cultural politics of immigration, conceptions of time and progress in political and legal thinking, discretion and emergency power, popular constitutionalism, and the politics of mourning. She is author of Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics (Cornell, 1993; awarded 1994 Scripps Prize for Best First Book in Political Theory), Democracy and the Foreigner (Princeton, 2001; the subject of an American Political Science Association theme panel in 2002), and Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy (Princeton, forthcoming). Her current project is on Sophocles' Antigone.
Honig has published articles in the American Political Science Review, Political Theory, Strategies, Boston Review, Social Text, diacritics, Social Research, and Triquarterly Review, and has edited or co-edited: Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt (Penn State, 1995), Skepticism, Individuality andFreedom: The Reluctant Liberalism of Richard Flathman (Minnesota, 2002) and the Oxford Handbook of Political Thought (Oxford, 2006). Honig's work has been translated into Japanese, Greek, German, Italian, Swedish and French. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, the Murphy Institute at Tulane University, the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College and, most recently, the American Philosophical Society.