Asma Abbas

​Asma Abbas is Professor of Politics and Philosophy, and Director of Transdisciplinary and Experimental Studies, at Bard College at Simon's Rock, and associate faculty at Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. She is founding director at Hic Rosa (an art, education, and politics collective), and the Falsework School, committed to new modes of just and liberatory political, aesthetic, and cultural education. In the recent past, she has served as the Fulbright-Masaryk Distinguished Chair in Social Studies at Masaryk University, and Dean of Academics at Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture. Locating her work at the intersection of politics, ethics, and aesthetics, she is committed to transdisciplinary, anticolonial, antifascist, and materialist, political theory and practice.  She is the author of Liberalism and Human Suffering (2010) and Another Love: A Politics of the Unrequited (2018), and several essays in journals and edited volumes. She is currently at work on Anti-Odysseus: Fugues of the Non-Homeric. She lives between Richmond, Massachusetts and Karachi, Pakistan.