Eleni Varikas

Visiting Scholar
Political Scientist
Université de Paris VIII

Contact Information
Phone: (617) 495-4303 x232
E-Mail: varikas@fas.harvard.edu





Biographical Statement

Varikas is a professor of political theory and gender studies at the Université de Paris VIII. She has published on the history of feminism, gender in political theory, citizenship and the construction of otherness in modern universalistic systems, and the theoretical status of experience and subjectivity in social and political analysis. Her most recent books are Penser le sexe et le genre (2006) and Les rebuts du monde. Figures du paria (forthcoming in October of 2007). Her current research includes a comparative study of postcolonial citizenship and a project on the rhetoric of modernity in the debates surrounding the Islamic headscarf in Europe. Varikas will be in residence at CES from January through June of 2007.