Banu Bargu is Professor in History of Consciousness at University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research and publications are situated at the intersection of political and critical theory, anthropology, history of social movements and resistance practices, and Middle East politics. She is the author of Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons, which received the First Book Award given by the Foundations of Political Theory section of the American Political Science Association and was named an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice. She is the incoming co-editor of Political Theory, the flagship journal of the field.