Professor Craig Calhoun FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2015
- Subjects
- Sociology
- Website
- https://calhoun.faculty.asu.edu
Summary
Social movements, shifting conditions for democracy and the relation of the local community to larger-scale solidarities have been at the centre of Craig Calhoun’s research. He has explored these themes in historical studies of England, France, and the US, in more contemporary projects in China, Ghana, and the Horn of Africa and in broader comparative-historical and theoretical enquiries. Originally a social anthropologist, Calhoun also engages in history, sociology, political economy, political theory, and philosophy. His work explores possibilities for collective action and choices about human development and social institutions in the face of cultural inheritance and material and social structures. This has led to studies of social movements, democracy, nations and nationalism, the politics of identity and belonging, the future of capitalism, the shaping role of technological infrastructures, and the public sphere. Calhoun has also served as Director of the LSE, President of the Social Science Research Council and published analyses of the transformation of universities and knowledge institutions.
Current post
Arizona State University University Professor of Social Sciences
London School of Economics and Political Science Centennial Professor
Past appointments
Berggruen Institute President
2016 - 2018
London School of Economics and Political Science Director
2012 - 2016
Columbia University Professor
2006 - 2007
Social Science Research Council President
1999 - 2012
New York University University Professor
1996 - 2012
University of North Carolina Professor
1989 - 1996
Top picks
In Pursuit of Post-National Politics
Interview
Craig Calhoun interviewed by Noema magazine on how to build governance institutions in the age of planetary problems.
Interview with Professor Craig Calhoun
Video
An interview with Craig Calhoun after he delivered the Campaign for Social Science Annual SAGE Lecture in 2014.
Conversations with History
Video
Craig Calhoun discusses the challenges confronting social science research.
Publications
Degenerations of Democracy
Craig Calhoun, Charles Taylor and Dilip Gaonkar - Published in 2022 by Harvard University Press
The Green New Deal and the Future of Work
Edited by Craig Calhoun and Benjamin Fong - Published in 2022 by Columbia University Press
Does Capitalism Have a Future?
Craig Calhoun, Immanuel Wallerstein, Randall Collins, Michael Mann and Georgi Derluguian - Published in 2013 by Oxford University
The Roots of Radicalism: Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early 19th Century Social Movements
Craig Calhoun - Published in 2012 by University of Chicago Press
Business as Usual: The Roots of the Global Financial Crisis
Edited by Craig Calhoun and Georgi Derlugian - Published in 2011 by New York University Press
Nations Matter: Culture, History, and the Cosmopolitan Dream
Craig Calhoun - Published in 2007 by Routledge
Nationalism
Craig Calhoun - Published in 1997 by Open University Press and University of Minnesota Press
Critical Social Theory: Culture, History and the Challenge of Difference
Craig Calhoun - Published in 1995 by Basil Blackwell
Neither Gods Nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China
Craig Calhoun - Published in 1994 by University of California Press
The Question of Class Struggle: Social Foundations of Popular Radicalism During the Industrial Revolution
Craig Calhoun - Published in 1982 by Chicago Press and Basil Blackwell
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