Professor Euben’s research has helped pioneer a relatively new and growing area of inquiry called comparative political theory. This is an understanding of political theory not as coextensive with Euro-American canonical texts ‘from Plato to NATO,’ but as inclusive of intellectual traditions of the “non-West” and global South, as well as of perspectives and traditions in but not of “the West.” Euben’s particular area of research is Islamic and European political thought, and her publications include Enemy in the Mirror: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism, Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge, and Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought: Texts and Contexts from Al-Banna to Bin Laden, written and edited with Muhammad Qasim Zaman. Euben’s research has been supported by fellowships from the John S. Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She was also awarded the Pinanski Teaching Prize at Wellesley College. Euben is currently working on a book on genealogies and rhetorics of humiliation.
