Judith Butler is Distinguished Professor in the Graduate Division at the University of
California, Berkeley. They have published several books on gender, sexuality, psychic life,
precarity, assembly, ethics, social and institutional violence, mourning in the fields of
critical theory, philosophy, and literary theory. They were the recipient of the Andrew
Mellon Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement in the Humanities (2009-13) and
received the Adorno Prize from the City of Frankfurt (2012) in honor of their
contributions to feminist and moral philosophy; the Brudner Prize from Yale University
for lifetime achievement in gay and lesbian studies. They were also elected as a member of
the American Philosophical Society in 2007 and the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences in 2019. In 2022, they received the Catalonia International Prize from the canton
of Catalunya and the gold medal from the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. In 2025 they
received the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award from The American Council of
Learned Societies. In 2026 they received the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award
from the Caribbean Philosophical Society.
They have served on the board of the Center for Constitutional Rights and on the
Academic Advisory Council of Jewish Voice for Peace; they are also a signatory of the
Statement of Scholars Against War in Palestine.
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