Quinn Slobodian
Canadian historian and professor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Quinn Slobodian (born 1978) is a Canadian historian specialising in modern Germany and international history. He is currently Professor of International History at Boston University.[1] Previously, he was the Marion Butler McLean Professor of the History of Ideas at Wellesley College and a Residential Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.[2] Slobodian is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow.
Quinn Slobodian | |
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.jpg) Slobodian in 2023 | |
| Born | 1978 (age 46–47) |
| Occupation(s) | Professor of International History, Boston University |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | New York University (PhD) Lewis & Clark College |
| Thesis | (2008) |
| Doctoral advisor | Molly Nolan |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Institutions | Wellesley College Free University Berlin Harvard University |
| Main interests | Modern European history International history |
| Website | www |
He is the author of the books Foreign Front: Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany (2012),[3] Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (2018),[3] Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy (2023),[4] and Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right (2025).
Biography
Slobodian was born in 1978 in Edmonton, Alberta.[5] His father was a doctor.[5] The family moved to Vancouver Island in 1981, and relocated to Lesotho in Southern Africa a few years later.[5] They left for Vanuatu in the South Pacific Ocean in 1992, and returned to Canada a year later.[5]
He studied history at Lewis & Clark College, graduating in 2000, and was awarded his PhD by New York University in 2008.[6]
He is a co-editor of Contemporary European History.[7]
He was the Marion Butler McLean Professor of the History of Ideas at Wellesley College and a Residential Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.[2] He is Professor of International History at Boston University.[1]
He has written the books Foreign Front: Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany (2012),[3] Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (2018),[3] and Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy (2023).[4]
Publications
As writer:
- Foreign Front: Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany, Duke UP, 2012.
- Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, Harvard UP, 2018.
- Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy, Metropolitan, 2023.
- Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right, Zone Books, April 2025
As editor:
- Comrades of Color: East Germany in the Cold War World, Berghahn Books, 2015.
- Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, with Dieter Plehwe and Philip Mirowski, Verso, 2020.[8]
- Market Civilizations: Neoliberals East and South, with Dieter Plehwe, Zone Books, 2020.
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