William Callison

Academic Appointments

Harvard University

Lecturer in Social Studies

Uppsala University

Postdoctoral Fellow in Human Geography

Institute for Advanced Study

Member in the School of Social Science

Lafayette College

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

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

Spanish translation: Neoliberalismo mutante: Gobierno del mercado y ruptura política (Madrid: Lengua de Trapo, 2023).

“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.

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

Alpar Lošonc in Panoeconomicus

Xia Chuanwei in The New Lens

Articles and Book Chapters

“A Climate Fit for Capitalism: Ordoliberalism’s Political Ecology and German Environmental Politics" (with Tatjana Söding), Environmental Politics; https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2024.2317108

"The Right’s Moral High Ground: Turkey, Spain and the United States” (with Asli Igsiz and Biko Koenig) in The Multiracial Right, 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, Ausgabe 01 (2023); https://doi.org/10.14512/OEWO380113

“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).

“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

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).

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

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

Public Writing

“The Great Driving Right Show" (with the Zetkin Collective), Salvage Magazine, #14 (Spring/Summer 2024).

"AfD: Kulturkampf mit jungen Rechten" (with Tatjana Söding), Zeit Online (August, 2024).

“Leugnen und verzerren: Die Klimakrise als Treibstoff der AfD” (with Tatjana Söding), Zeitschrift Luxemburg (Dezember 2023).

Republished: "Zwischen Klimaleugnung und Ökofaschismus: Wie es der AfD gelingt, in der Klimafrage zu punkten", SoZ (04/2024).

"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

"New Preface to White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism” (with Tatjana Söding), Verso Blog (October 2022).

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 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?"

"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).

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