Elif Kalaycioglu is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at The University of Alabama. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University's Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance. Kalaycioglu conducts research at the intersection of politics of humanity and global cultural politics, centred on questions of order-making, subjectivity, and recognition. Her work has appeared in Security Dialogue, International Political Sociology, and the Oxford Encyclopedia of International Studies, as well as in the edited volumes Culture and Order in World Politics and Islamic Architecture Today and Tomorrow: (Re)Defining the Field.