Dr Agnes Czajka

Professional biography

Agnes Czajka joined the Department of Politics and International Studies in 2013. Prior to joining the Open University she taught politics at Sabanci University in Turkey, and sociology at the American University in Cairo and the University College Cork in Ireland. Agnes received her M.A. in Political Economy from Carleton University in Ottawa, and her Ph.D. in Sociology from York University in Toronto.

Research interests

Agnes’s research interests include contemporary social and political thought, continental political philosophy, democracy, citizenship, contentious politics, migrant and refugee politics, and European and Mediterranean politics. Agnes’s most recent books include Art, Migration and the Production of Radical Democratic Citizenship (Rowman and Littlefield), Democracy and Justice: Reading Derrida in Istanbul (Routledge), and Europe After Derrida: Crisis and Potentiality (Edinburgh University Press). 

Recent publications

A selection of my research publications can be viewed at The Open University's Open Research Online.