Associate Professor; Head Graduate Advisor and Admissions Chair
Samera Esmeir’s research and teaching interests lie at the intersections of legal history and legal thought, political theory, Middle East studies, Islamic studies, colonial and postcolonial studies, and critical theory. She’s interested in diagnosing the limits that the liberal-secular tradition sets on thought and in cultivating attunement to this tradition's outside or to the grammars of life, law, and politics at its edge. Her first book, Juridical Humanity: A Colonial History (Stanford University Press, 2012), is a historical study of the powers of modern law in colonial Egypt and a...
