William Callison
Academic Appointments
Institute for Advanced Study (2021-22)
Member in the School of Social Science
Lafayette College (2019-21)
Visiting Assistant Professor of Government and Law
Education
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (2019)
Political Science, Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory
M.A. University of California, Berkeley (2013)
Political Science
M.A. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2011)
Philosophie
B.A. University of Virginia (2009)
Political and Social Thought, with high distinction, Phi Beta Kappa
Visiting Positions
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (Summer 2019)
IES Fellow & Visiting Researcher
University of Vienna (Spring 2019)
Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Research Fellow
Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main. & Institut für Sozialforschung (2015-16)
DAAD Graduate Scholar & Visiting Fellow
Columbia University (Spring 2014)
Graduate Exchange Scholar
Publications
Edited Books and Journals
Spanish translation: Neoliberalismo mutante: Gobierno del mercado y ruptura política (Madrid: Lengua de Trapo, 2023).
Reviews of Mutant Neoliberalism: Market Rule and Political Rupture
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Corinne Blalock, William Davies, Verónica Gago, and David Singh Grewal in LPE Blog
Jessica Whyte in Perspectives on Politics
Michael Behrent in Tocqueville21
Johannes Lenhard in American Ethnologist
Articles and Book Chapters
“The Right’s Moral High Ground: Inclusive Exclusivity in Turkey, Spain and the United States” (with Asli Igsiz and Biko Koenig) in Conservativisms of Color, edited by Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes (NYU Press, forthcoming 2024).
“Extinguishing the Flames: A Call for Future Research and Action on Far-Right Ecologies” (with The Zetkin Collective) in Irma Allen, Kristoffer Ekberg, Ståle Holgersen, Andreas Malm (eds.) Fanning the flames: Political Ecologies of the Far Right (Manchester University Press, forthcoming 2024 ).
“Postwachstum von rechts und die Gefahr des Ökofaschismus” (with Tatjana Söding), Ökologisches Wirtschaften (forthcoming 2023).
“The Politics of Rationality in Early Neoliberalism: Max Weber, Ludwig von Mises, and the Socialist Calculation Debate,” Journal of the History of Ideas (April 2022): 269–291.
“Ordoliberal Theory in Historical Context,” in Oxford Handbook of Ordoliberalism, eds. Thomas Biebricher, Werner Bonefeld, and Peter Nedergaard (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
"Introduction: Theorizing Mutant Neoliberalism" (with Zachary Manfredi) in Mutant Neoliberalism: Market Rule and Political Rupture, Callison and Manfredi, eds. (Fordham University Press, 2020).
Book Reviews
Review of Neil Vallelly, Futilitarianism: Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness (Goldsmiths Press, 2021) in Theory & Event (Fall 2022).
"The Non-Crisis of Precarity Capitalism?" Review Symposium on Capitalism on Edge: How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis Or Utopia by Albena Azmanova, in Critical Horizons A Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory (August 2022).
Public Writing
“The Great Driving Right Show" (with the Zetkin Collective), Salvage (forthcoming 2023-24).
"Milei's Chainsaw," Sidecar (New Left Review), October 5, 2023.
Spanish translation: "La motosierra de Milei," El Salto, Oct 20, 2023
Spanish translation (abridged): "El anarcoautoritarismo de Javier Milei," Latinoamérica 21, Oct 15, 2023. Republished in El Confidencial, Montevideo Portal, La Revista, El Nacional
Spanish translation forthcoming with Capitán Swing (2023)
"Coronapolitics from the Reichstag to the Capitol" (with Quinn Slobodian), Boston Review (January 2021).
In German: "Querdenker: Der Aufstand des Mittelstands," Zeit Online (April 3, 2021).
In Spanish: "El auge del ‘diagonalismo,’" Política Exterior (Mayo/Junio 2021).
In Danish (interview): Kåre Holm Thomsen, "Populismens efterfølger" Weekendavisen (Feb 23, 2021).
In Croatian (coverage): "Nakon populizma – dijagonalizam?"
"A Tale of Two Ordos: German Nationalism in Brown and Red" (with Quinn Slobodian), ROAR Magazine (Summer 2020).
"Dead Again? Mutant Neoliberalism and Crisis Reinvention" (with Zachary Manfredi), LPE Blog (April 2020).
"Pop-Up Populism: The Failure of Left-Wing Nationalism in Germany" (with Quinn Slobodian), Dissent (Summer 2019).
"S’émanciper de l’émancipation: Entretien avec Wendy Brown," interviewed by William Callison and Michel Feher, Mouvements, Issue 97, No. 1 (2019).
In French: “Résurgence ou renaissance: l’héritage ordoliberal,” Vacarme 80 (Été 2017).
In French: “L’hospitalité néolibérale: une lecture de l’été des migrations,” Vacarme 76 (Été 2016).