Organizers

Basak Kus

Basak Kus is a professor of government at Wesleyan University, where she teaches courses on American and comparative capitalisms, the state, law, and public policy. She is the author of Disembedded: Regulation, Crisis, and Democracy in the Age of Finance (Oxford University Press, 2024) and numerous articles on neoliberalism, social policy, income and wealth inequality, redistributive politics, financialization, and, more recently, climate change and green energy transitions. She is also the editor or co-editor of three special issues: "Greening the Economy: Toward a New Political Economy" in Regulation & Governance, "Politics of Financialization" in Economic and Social Review, and "Credit, Consumption, and Debt" in the International Journal of Comparative Sociology. 

Professor Kus grew up in Türkiye and completed her undergraduate studies at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. She obtained her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining Wesleyan, she has completed postdoctoral fellowships at Yale and Princeton universities.