Barbara Buckinx

Research Scholar, Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination (LISD)
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Office:
017 Bendheim Hall
Phone:
609-258-6182
E-mail:
bbuckinx@princeton.edu
Assistant:
Julie A. Newton

Biography

Barbara Buckinx is a Research Scholar and Lecturer in Public and International Affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. She received her PhD in Politics from Princeton University and also holds MA and MSc degrees in Psychology and Social and Political Theory, both from the University of Edinburgh. Prior to returning to Princeton, she was a pre-doctoral fellow with the Political Theory Project at Brown University, a Justitia Amplificata and Kassel Foundation post-doctoral fellow at Goethe University Frankfurt, and a Fellow with the Center on Global Justice at the University of California, San Diego.

Her research interests lie in global governance, migration, refugees, citizenship, and borders. Her teaching interests also include the environment and gender. Her work has appeared in journals such as Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Democratic Theory, PS: Political Science & Politics, Migration Studies, Ethics & International Affairs, and American Journal of International Law Unbound. Her article on “The case against removal: Jus noci and harm in deportation practice” (co-authored, A. Filindra) was the Winner of the 2015 Migration Studies Prize for Best Article. She is co-editor of Domination and Global Political Justice: Conceptual, Historical, and Institutional Perspectives (Routledge). In her work, Dr Buckinx aims to reconcile the divide between normative political theory and policy research and give guidance to scholars as well as policy makers on what to allow, what to prohibit, and how to target reform in global governance.

Dr. Buckinx regularly teaches Junior Research Seminars on immigration and refugee policy (SPI 300) and The Ethical Policy Maker (SPI 368), which pairs a domestic or international public policy with relevant scholarship in ethics to better understand what is at stake. 

She is co-chair of The Global Justice Network and a member of the Global Health Impact's Pandemic Health Equity Working Group and the Normative Theory of Immigration Working Group. She also chairs the selection committee for the annual Jonathan Trejo-Mathys Essay Prize, which is co-sponsored by The Global Justice Network and the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College. At LISD, she serves as the project lead for the Project on Global Governance, the Project on Environment and Migration, the Ethics of Policy Fellowship Program, and the Project on Gender in the Global Community. She is the faculty co-lead of the LISD Africa Program.

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