Following her keynote at this year’s FRIBIS annual conference, Almaz Zelleke, professor of Practice in Political Science at NYU Shanghai, and member of the FRIBIS team UBI and Gender, remains at FRIBIS for two weeks as a visiting professor. During her stay, she will give a workshop to FRIBIS PhD students on the topic how to Make the Best of Academic Conferences and share ideas with them about their research projects. After the visit of Prof. Dr. Toru Yamamori in September, the FRIBIS Gender team is particularly excited to have the opportunity to meet another team member in person and further engage in the exploration of UBI from a gender perspective.
Prof. Dr. Almaz Zelleke is a Professor of Practice in Political Science at NYU Shanghai. She specializes in UBI, including gender, political theory and public policy, feminist political theory, and comparative political economy. Her articles on basic income, distributive justice, welfare policy, and feminist political theory have been published in Basic Income Studies, Political Quarterly, Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, Policy and Politics, Review of Social Economy, Journal of Socio-Economics, and Political y Sociedad. Lives in NYC, USA.