William Callison

Academic Appointments

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Institute for Advanced Study (2021-22)

Member of the School of Social Science 

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Lafayette College (2019-21)

Visiting Assistant Professor of Government and Law 

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Education

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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

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M.A.  Humboldt University of Berlin (2011)

Philosophy

B.A.    University of Virginia (2009)

Political and Social Thought, with high distinction, Phi Beta Kappa

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Visiting Positions 

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Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (Summer 2019)

IES Fellow & Visiting Researcher

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University of Vienna (Spring 2019)

Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Research Fellow

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University of Frankfurt a.M. & Institut für Sozialforschung (2015-16)

DAAD Graduate Scholar & Visiting Fellow

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Columbia University (Spring 2014)

Graduate Exchange Scholar

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Publications

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Edited Books and Journals

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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.

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Reviews of ​Mutant Neoliberalism: Market Rule and Political Rupture

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Jessica Whyte in Perspectives on Politics

Michael Behrent in Tocqueville21

Johannes Lenhard in American Ethnologist

Alpar Lošonc in Panoeconomicus

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Corinne Blalock, William Davies, Verónica Gago, and David Singh Grewal in LPE Blog 

Articles and Book Chapters​

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“The Politics of Rationality in Early Neoliberalism: Max Weber, Ludwig von Mises, and the Socialist Calculation Debate” in Journal of the History of Ideas (forthcoming).

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“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).

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“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.

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

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

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Book Reviews​

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Review of Albena Azmanova, Capitalism on Edge: How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis Or Utopia (forthcoming).

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Review of Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism in Perspectives on Politics (Winter 2021).

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

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Public Writing

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"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 Dutch (interview): Seije Slager, "De nieuwe protestbeweging: Het wantrouwen tegen de macht wordt een politiek verdienmodel" Trouw (Feb 3, 2021).

In Croatian (coverage): "Nakon populizma – dijagonalizam?"

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

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

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

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

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Interview with Thomas Biebricher, “Return or Revival: The Ordoliberal Legacy” in Near Futures Online, “Europe at a Crossroads,” Issue 1 (March 2016).

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

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Interview with Sonja Buckel, “Welcome Management: Making Sense of the ‘Summer of Migration’” in 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).

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Interview with 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).

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Translations

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Verónica Gago, “Mutant Neoliberalism, Originary Violence and Feminist Revolts in Latin America,” translated by William Callison and Andrea Sempértegui, Mutant Neoliberalism Symposium, LPE Blog (April 2020).

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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.