# Begüm Adalet
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## Associate Professor
### Overview
Begüm Adalet is Associate Professor in the Department of Government. She is a political theorist with research and teaching interests in infrastructures and ideologies of empire, racism, anti-colonialism, and transnationalism, with a focus on the Cold War period. Their writings have appeared in the *American Political Science Review, Political Theory,* *Environment and Planning D: Society and Space,* and *South Atlantic Quarterly,*among others. She is currently working on a second book project, tentatively titled, *Insurgent Mood: Black Radical Internationalism from the United States to the Middle East*. Before coming to Cornell, they were Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow at the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University and Instructor in the Politics Department at Ithaca College.
### Publications
**Selected Publications**
2024“Empire and Radical International Thought,” co-edited with Alina Sajed, Special Issue of *South Atlantic Quarterly* <https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-11235551>
2024 “An Insurgent Mood: Politics of Home in Lorraine Hansberry’s Writings,” *American Political Science Review* <https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055424000157>
2024 “An Empire of Development: American Political Thought in Transnational Perspective” *American Political Science Review* [https://doi.org/10.1017/S000305542400025X](https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1017%2FS000305542400025X&data=05%7C02%7Cba375%40cornell.edu%7C1de4ac15bf66451d085508dc4a54490b%7C5d7e43661b9b45cf8e79b14b27df46e1%7C0%7C0%7C638466973189132407%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=4ydc33aVu5GF55hHLNe27GJ%2FXnlW5kCbICXwfUOgP%2F0%3D&reserved=0)
2023 “W. E. B. Du Bois and transnationalism: a conversation” *International Politics.*Roundtable Discussion on Inés Valdez’s *Transnational Cosmopolitanism: Kant, Du Bois, and Justice as a Political Craft*, (with Charisse Burden-Stelly, Adam Dahl, Katrin Flikschuh, Inés Valdez) <https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-023-00436-w>
2022 “Erupting Out of the ‘Zone of Non-Being’: The Cunning of Solidarity.” *Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy*30(1): 79-81. Symposium on Geo Maher’s *Anticolonial Eruptions: Racial Hubris and the Cunning of Resistance* (with responses from Henry Aoki, Kevin Bruyneel, Geo Maher, Althea Sircar, Anna Terwiel) <https://doi.org/10.5195/jffp.2022.1010>
2022 "Infrastructures of Decolonization: Frantz Fanon and Scales of Worldmaking” *Political Theory*[*https://doi.org/10.1177/00905917211009152*](https://doi.org/10.1177/00905917211009152)
2022 “Agricultural Infrastructures: Race, Land, and Statecraft in Turkey,” *Environment and Planning D: Society and Space* <https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758221124139>
2020 “Mediating the Kennedy Presidency: James Baldwin’s Decade in Turkey,” *Globalizing the U.S. Presidency: Postcolonial Views of John F. Kennedy*, ed. Cyrus Schayegh, Bloomsbury Series “New Approaches to International History,” 2020 <http://doi.org/10.5040/9781350134690.0025>
2020 “James Baldwin, Here and Elsewhere” (Review of Eddie Glaude’s *Begin Again) Public Books*. [https*://www.publicbooks.org/james-baldwin-here-and-elsewhere/*](https://www.publicbooks.org/james-baldwin-here-and-elsewhere/)
2018 “Tensions, terrors, tenderness: James Baldwin’s Politics of Comparison,” *Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East* 38 (3) <http://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-7208834>
2018 *Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey*, Stanford University Press <https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=28678>