Quinn Slobodian
Quinn Slobodian | |
|---|---|
Slobodian in 2023 | |
| Born | 1978 (age 46–47) |
| Occupation(s) | Professor of International History, Boston University |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | New York University (PhD) Lewis & Clark College |
| Thesis | (2008) |
| Doctoral advisor | Molly Nolan |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Institutions | Wellesley College Free University Berlin Harvard University |
| Main interests | Modern European history International history |
| Website | www |
Quinn Slobodian (born 1978) is a Canadian historian specialising in modern Germany and international history. He is currently Professor of International History at Boston University.[1] Previously, he was the Marion Butler McLean Professor of the History of Ideas at Wellesley College and a Residential Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.[2] Slobodian is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow.
Biography
Slobodian was born in 1978 in Edmonton, Alberta.[3] His father was a doctor.[3] The family moved to Vancouver Island in 1981, and relocated to Lesotho in Southern Africa a few years later.[3] They left for Vanuatu in the South Pacific, in 1992, and returned to Canada a year later.[3]
He studied history at Lewis & Clark College, graduating in 2000, and was awarded his PhD by New York University in 2008.[4]
Between 2013 and 2014, he was a Fellow at the Dahlem Humanities Centre of Free University Berlin.[5]
In 2015, he became the Marion Butler McLean Professor of the History of Ideas at Wellesley College. He interrupted his teaching career in 2017 for a year as a residential fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.[4]
Since 2024, Slobodian has been Professor of International History at Boston University. In the same year, he was a visiting professor at University of Roma 3.[6] Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.[2][1]
Until January 2025, Slobodian was a co-editor of Contemporary European History.[7]
He has written the books Foreign Front: Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany (2012),[8] Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (2018),[8] and Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy (2023).[9]
Publications
As author:
- Foreign Front: Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany, Duke UP, 2012.
- Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, Harvard UP, 2018.
- Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy, Metropolitan, 2023.
- Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right, Zone Books, April 2025. [10]
As editor:
- Comrades of Color: East Germany in the Cold War World, Berghahn Books, 2015.
- Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, with Dieter Plehwe and Philip Mirowski, Verso, 2020.[11]
- Market Civilizations: Neoliberals East and South, with Dieter Plehwe, Zone Books, 2020.
References
- ^ a b "Quinn Slobodian | The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies". www.bu.edu. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
- ^ a b "Quinn Slobodian's CV - Wellesley's College" (PDF). June 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
- ^ a b c d Jacobson, Gavin (15 April 2023). "Fantasies and fever dreams". New Statesman. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
- ^ a b "International Students and Scholars: Alumni Profiles". Lewis & Clark College. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ "Quinn Slobodian - Fellow der Volkswagen Stiftung und der Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. September 2013–August 2014. The Discipline of the World Economy: Émigrés against the Global New Deal, 1936-1980". Freie Universität Berlin. Retrieved 23 May 2025.
- ^ "Roma Tre - Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici. Visiting Professors & Scholars". Retrieved 4 April 2025.
- ^ "Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core". Cambridge Core. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
- ^ a b Spiro, Liat (21 March 2018). "Global Histories of Neoliberalism: An Interview with Quinn Slobodian". Toynbee Prize Foundation. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
- ^ Denvir, Daniel (28 February 2024). "The Libertarians Who Dream of a World Without Democracy". Jacobin. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
- ^ "Fetishizing the Right, from McCarthy to Musk". Los Angeles Review of Books. 8 June 2025. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
- ^ Philip Mirowski; Dieter Plehwe; Quinn Slobodian (eds.). "Nine Lives of Neoliberalism". www.versobooks.com. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
Further reading
- Steinmetz-Jenkins, Daniel (11 October 2023). "The Market Radicals Who Want to Put an End to Democracy - A conversation with the historian Quinn Slobodian about economic loopholes, the end of neoliberalism, and his new book Crack-Up Capitalism". The Nation.
External links
- Media related to Quinn Slobodian at Wikimedia Commons