Almaz Zelleke

Almaz Zelleke is a Professor of Practice in Political Science at NYU Shanghai. Prior to joining the university, she was a visiting scholar at the NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and was the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the New School for Public Engagement in New York City. She holds a PhD and MA in political science from Harvard University and a BA from Princeton University.

Professor Zelleke’s research interests include political theory, public policy, and feminist political theory. Her work has appeared in Basic Income Studies, the Journal of Socio-Economics, Review of Social Economy, Policy & Politics, and the Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare.  Her manuscript in progress, Economic Security for All: A Feminist Perspective on Basic Income, will be published by MIT Press.

Professor Zelleke is a member of the UBI and Gender team at the Freiburg Institute for Basic Income Studies (FRIBIS) at the University of Freiburg. 

Read more about Professor Zelleke's research in What I'm Working On: Almaz Zelleke Explores the Possibilities of Universal Basic Income.

Select Publications

• “Toward a Gender-Inclusive Social Policy State,” forthcoming in Bernhard Neumärker and Jessica Schulz, eds., Proceedings of the FRIBIS Annual Conference 2023 (LIT Verlag, 2024)

• “Gender Effects of a Basic Income,” with Annie Miller and Toru Yamamori, in Malcolm Torry, ed., Palgrave International Handbook on Basic Income, 2nd ed. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

• “Wages for Housework: The Marxist-Feminist Case for Basic Income,” Política y Sociedad, 59:2 (2022)

• “Fifty Years Later, Reconsidering Race, Class, and the Defeat of Nixon’s Family Assistance Plan,” Basic Income Today (August 8, 2019)

• “Work, Leisure, and Care: A Gender Perspective on the Participation Income,” The Political Quarterly, 89: 2 (2018), 273-79

• “Lessons from Sweden: Solidarity, the Welfare State, and Basic Income,” Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 43: 3 (2016), 73-96

Education

• PhD, Political Science
  Harvard University
• MA, Political Science
  Harvard University