2026 Seyla Benhabib: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	55	158	136	97	80	245	33825

Research.com Recognitions

2011 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
2005 - Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)
1995 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Seyla Benhabib is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and conducts research primarily within the social sciences, with a focus on political science and international relations. Their academic work extends into intersecting subfields including sociology and political science, law, philosophy, and religious studies.

The main topics of Benhabib's research include several dimensions of political thought and social inquiry. These topics are:

Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy
Political Philosophy and Ethics
Critical Theory and Philosophy
Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
Law in Society and Culture
Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Global Peace and Security Dynamics

Their scholarly output includes multiple recent papers published from 2020 to 2021. Notable works are:

"The End of the 1951 Refugee Convention? Dilemmas of Sovereignty, Territoriality, and Human Rights" (2020) published in Jus Cogens
"Dialogic constitutionalism and judicial review" (2020) published in Global Constitutionalism
"Habermas's new Phenomenology of Spirit: Two centuries after Hegel" (2021) published in Constellations
"Democracy, science and the state: Reflections on the disaster(s) of our times" (2021) published in Philosophy & Social Criticism
"A militant defence of democracy in hard times" (2020) published in Philosophy & Social Criticism

Benhabib has also contributed to academic books published by reputable presses. Noteworthy book publications include:

The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law, Cambridge University Press, 2021
Gleichheit und Differenz, Mohr Siebeck eBooks, 2021

Frequent publication venues for Benhabib's work are as follows:

Philosophy & Social Criticism
Constellations
Jus Cogens
Global Constitutionalism
Cadernos de Filosofia Alemã Crítica e Modernidade

Benhabib regularly collaborates with other scholars. Among frequent coauthors are:

Jens Meierhenrich
Paul Linden-Retek
Adriaan Lanni
Luc Heuschling
Lawrence Rosen

The academic honors received reflect recognition within their field. These awards include:

Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2011
Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science Association (APSA), 2005
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1995

Best Publications

The rights of others : aliens, residents, and citizens

Seyla Benhabib

3900
Citations
Democracy and difference : contesting the boundaries of the political

Seyla Benhabib

2946
Citations
Critique, Norm, and Utopia: A Study of the Foundations of Critical Theory

Seyla Benhabib

2198
Citations
Modernity versus Postmodernity

Jurgen Habermas;Seyla Ben-Habib

2002
Citations
The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era

Seyla Benhabib

1863
Citations
The reluctant modernism of Hannah Arendt

Seyla Benhabib

1821
Citations
The Claims of Culture

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1814
Citations
Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics.

Cheshire Calhoun;Seyla Benhabib

1681
Citations
Four Toward a Deliberative Model of Democratic Legitimacy

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1227
Citations
The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures

Seyla Benhabib;Jurgen Habermas;Frederick G. Lawrence

1122
Citations
Another Cosmopolitanism

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1029
Citations
Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics

Seyla Benhabib

942
Citations
Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange

Seyla Benhabib;Judith Butler;Drucilla Cornell;Nancy Fraser

919
Citations
Feminism as critique: On the politics of gender

Seyla Benhabib;Drucilla Cornell

875
Citations
Dignity in Adversity: Human Rights in Troubled Times

Seyla Benhabib

734
Citations
Los derechos de los otros: extranjeros, residentes y ciudadanos

Seyla Benhabib

655
Citations
Situating the Self

Seyla Benhabib

585
Citations
The Claims of Culture

Unknown

577
Citations
Deliberative Rationalality and Models of Democratic Legitimacy

Seyla Benhabib

264
Citations
Sexual Difference and Collective Identities--The New Global Constellation

Seyla Benhabib

238
Citations
The Communicative Ethics Controversy

Seyla Benhabib;Fred R. Dallmayr

231
Citations
Twilight of Sovereignty or the Emergence of Cosmopolitan Norms? Rethinking Citizenship in Volatile Times

Seyla Benhabib

218
Citations
Claiming Rights across Borders: International Human Rights and Democratic Sovereignty

Seyla Benhabib

211
Citations
Identities, Affiliations and Allegiances

Seyla Benhabib;Ian Shapiro;Danilo Petranović

166
Citations
The Law of Peoples, Distributive Justice, and Migrations

Seyla Benhabib

165
Citations
Epistemologies of Postmodernism: A Rejoinder to Jean-Francois Lyotard

Seyla Benhabib

156
Citations
Hannah Arendt and the Redemptive Power of Narrative

Seyla Benhabib

136
Citations
Borders, Boundaries, and Citizenship

Seyla Benhabib

135
Citations
I. Judgment and the Moral Foundations of Politics in Arendt's Thought

Seyla Benhabib

134
Citations
The Right to Justification by Rainer Forst

Seyla Benhabib;Jeffrey Flynn;Matthias Fritsch;Rainer Forst

125
Citations
The Philosophical Foundations of Cosmopolitan Norms

Seyla Benhabib

122
Citations
Habermas and the Unfinished Project of Modernity: Critical Essays on the Philosophical Discourse of Modernity

Maurizio Passerin d'Entrèves;Seyla Benhabib

82
Citations
Critique, Norm and Utopia: A Study of the Foundations of Critical Theory

Dieter Misgeld;Seyla Benhabib

42
Citations
Pragmatism, critique, judgment : essays for Richard J. Bernstein

Seyla Benhabib;Nancy Fraser

21
Citations
Crises of the Republic

Seyla Benhabib

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian Shapiro Yale University

Nancy Fraser New School

Judith Butler University of California, Berkeley

Herbert Marcuse University of California, San Diego

Jürgen Habermas Goethe University Frankfurt

Robert C. Post Yale University

Richard A. Posner University of Chicago

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