William Callison

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Academic Appointments

Lafayette College (2019-present)

Visiting Assistant Professor of Government and Law

Education

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (2019)

Political Science, Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory, Dissertation Committee:

Wendy Brown (Chair), Pheng Cheah (Rhetoric), Kinch Hoekstra (Political Theory),

Martin Jay (History), Hans Sluga (Philosophy), Shannon Stimson (Political Theory)

M.A. University of California, Berkeley (2013)

Political Science

M.A. Humboldt University of Berlin (2011)

Philosophy

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

University of Frankfurt am Main & Institute for Social Research (2015-16)

DAAD Graduate Scholar & Visiting Fellow

Columbia University (Spring 2014)

Graduate Exchange Scholar

Publications

Edited Books and Journals

Mutant Neoliberalism: Market Rule and Political Rupture, ed. with Zachary Manfredi (Fordham University Press, 2020).

“Europe at a Crossroads,” Near Futures Online, ed. with Michel Feher, Milad Odabaei and Aurélie Windels,Issue 1 (March 2016).

“Rethinking Sovereignty and Capitalism” (ed. Special Issue) in Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences, 23.1 Fall/Winter 2014.

Articles and Book Chapters

(with Zachary Manfredi) "Introduction: Theorizing Mutant Neoliberalism" in Mutant Neoliberalism: Market Rule and Political Rupture, Callison and Manfredi, eds. (Fordham University Press, 2020).

“Ordoliberalism’s Trans-Atlantic (Un)Intelligibility: From Friedman and Eucken to Geithner and Schäuble” in Ordoliberalism, Law and the Rule of Economics, edited by Josef Hien and Christian Joerges (Bloomsbury & Hart Publishing, 2018): pp. 49-70.

“Subjectivity,” A Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory, edited by Imre Szeman, Sarah Blacker and Justin Sully (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017): pp. 173-190.

"Sovereign Anxieties and Neoliberal Transformations: An Introduction,” Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences, 23.1 (Fall/Winter 2014): pp. 3-34.

Book Reviews

Book Review of Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism (forthcoming in Perspectives on Politics).

Book Review of Thomas Biebricher, The Political Theory of Neoliberalism (Contemporary Political Theory, 2020).

Public Writings and Interviews

(with Quinn Slobodian) "A Tale of Two Ordos: German Nationalism in Brown and Red," ROAR Magazine (Summer 2020).

(with Zachary Manfredi) "Dead Again? Dead Again? Mutant Neoliberalism and Crisis Reinvention," LPE Blog (April 2020).

(with Quinn Slobodian) "Pop-Up Populism: The Failure of Left-Wing Nationalism in Germany," Dissent (Summer 2019).

In French: “Rideau sur un coup de théâtre populiste de la gauche allemande” in AOC: Analyse, Opinion, Critique (Sept. 3, 2019).

“Movements of Counter-Speculation: A Conversation with Michel Feher,” interviewed by William Callison, Los Angeles Review of Books (July 12, 2019).

"S’émanciper de l’émancipation: Entretien avec Wendy Brown," interviewed by William Callison and Michel Feher, Mouvements, Issue 97, No. 1 (2019).

Thomas Biebricher, “Return or Revival: The Ordoliberal Legacy” (interviewed by William Callison), Near Futures Online, “Europe at a Crossroads,” Issue 1 (March 2016).

In French: “Résurgence ou renaissance: l’héritage ordoliberal,” Vacarme 80 (Été 2017).

Sonja Buckel, “Welcome Management: Making Sense of the ‘Summer of Migration’” (interviewed by William Callison), Near Futures Online, “Europe at a Crossroads,” Issue 1 (March 2016).

In French: “L’hospitalité néolibérale: une lecture de l’été des migrations,” Vacarme 76 (Été 2016).

Claus Offe, “The Fate of an Impasse: Europe, Year 2015” (interviewed by William Callison, Jonathan Klein and Johann Szews), Near Futures Online, “Europe at a Crossroads,” Issue 1 (March 2016).

Translations

Interviews with Sonja Buckel and Claus Offe (see above).

Martin Saar, “Spinoza and the Political Imaginary” (translated by William Callison and Anne Gräfe), Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences, 23.2 Spring/Summer 2015: pp. 115-133.

Joseph Vogl, “The Real and the All-Too-Human” (translated by William Callison), Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy, Issue Number 22, 2015: pp. 16-21.

Joseph Vogl, “The Sovereignty Effect: Markets and Power in the Economic Regime” (translated by William Callison), Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences, 23.1 Fall/Winter 2014: 125-155.