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Sprinkling her talk with professor-speak like "decisional matrices," the professor does have room for a colloquival vocabulary. She calls Brandeis University, where she studied, the "boondocks" in comparison to her native Istanbul. She also notices when slang usage is no longer au courant with her undergraduate students (e.g. "awesome...
Sprinkling her talk with professor-speak like "decisional matrices," the professor does have room for a colloquial vocabulary. She calls Brandeis University, where she studied, the "boondocks" in comparison to her native Istanbul. She also notices when slang usage is no longer au courant with her undergraduate students (e.g. "awesome...
The scholarly bent might have come from her grandparents, she says. Growing up in a sophisticated, well-educated Jewish area of Istanbul provided her with both her cosmopolitanism and, perhaps, the motivation to leave her native country for a scholarship at Brandeis. Today she returns to Turkey only for visits...
When Benhabib came to Brandeis, she found the place provincial in some ways compared to Istanbul. Many American students at the time were not eager to meet or understand international students, she says. She went on to receive her Ph.D. at Yale, with a dissertation titled "Natural Right and Hegel...
When Benhabib came to Brandeis, she found the place provincial in some ways compared to Istanbul. Many American students at the time were not eager to meet or understand international students, she says. She went on to receive her Ph. D. at Yale, with a dissertation titled "Natural Right and...