Courtney Jung is a professor at the Department of Political Science of the University of Toronto, where she holds the George Ignatieff Chair, Department of Political Science.^[1] Her research focuses on critical theory and identity formation at the intersection of contemporary political theory and comparative politics.^[1]

She held visiting positions at Central European University, Yale University, and University of Cape Town before joining the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto.^[1]

Awards

• National Endowment for the Humanities (2001–2002)^[2]
• Mellon Foundation (2002–2004)^[2]
• Fulbright New Century Scholars Program (2003)^[2]
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (2009–2015)^[2]
• Jackman Humanities Institute (2017–2018)^[2]

Publications

• Then I Was Black: South African Political Identities in Transition (Yale University Press, 2000)
• The Moral Force of Indigenous Politics: Critical liberalism and the Zapatistas (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
• Lactivism: how feminists and fundamentalists, hippies and yuppies, and physicians and politicians made breastfeeding big business and bad policy (Basic Books, 2015)^[3][4]