WENDY BROWN
Class of 1936 First Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science
University of California, Berkeley
210 Barrows Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-1950
[email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
M.A.
B.A.
Politics; Princeton University, June l983,
Program in Political Philosophy
Politics; Princeton University, October l980,
Program in Political Philosophy
Economics (Honors) and Politics (Honors); UC Santa Cruz, June l977
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
University of California, Berkeley
Professor, Political Science, with affiliations in Rhetoric, Critical Theory, and Women’s and Gender Studies,
1999-present
University of California, Santa Cruz
Professor, Women's Studies, Legal Studies, and History of Consciousness, 1995-99
Associate Professor 1989-95
Williams College
Associate Professor of Political Science, with an affiliation in Women’s Studies, 1989
Assistant Professor 1983-89
Princeton University
Teaching Assistant and Instructor of Politics, 1980-82
Visiting Academic Appointments
Faculty Member, Critical Theory Summer School, Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities (June 2012)
Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University (March-April 2009)
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, School of Social Science (2001-02)
Visiting Faculty Fellow, Institut für Philosophie, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany (June 1998)
Co-Convener, Residential Research Seminar, University of California Humanities Research Institute
(January-June 1995)
Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy, Haverford College, Spring 1982
PRIZES, HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS (Past 12 years only)
Distinguished Senior Fellow, Humanities Center, Cornell University (2013)
David Easton Prize in Political Theory for Walled States, Waning Sovereignty (2012) Elaine Starvo Distinguished Lecturer, Trent University, Canada (September 2011)
Class of 1936 First Professor, University of California, Berkeley (2011-2021)
Lee Lecturer, All Souls College, Oxford (March 2011)
Distinguished Humanities Center Lecturer, University of Texas, Austin (February 2010)
Brownlee Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania (March 2010)
Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University (Spring 2009)
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Theodore Mitau Lecturer, Macalaster College (Spring 2009)
Distinguished Visiting Faculty Fellow, Gender Institute, London School of Economics (November 2008)
Emanuel Heller Chair, UC Berkeley (2008-2011)
UC President’s Humanities Fellow (2008-09)
Humanities Research Fellowship, UC Berkeley (spring 2004, fall 2008)
Solomon Katz Distinguished Lecturer in the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle (Spring 2008)
Walker Horizon Lecturer, De Pauw University (November 2007)
Jeffrey Auer Lecturer, University of Indiana (April 2007)
Distinguished Visiting Fellow, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland (November 2003)
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, School of Social Science (2001-02)
Senior Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies (2001-02)
Senior Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2001-02, declined)
Humanities Research Fellowship, UC Berkeley (2002-declined)
Visiting Fellow, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna (December 2001)
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BOOKS
Single-Authored Books in English
Walled States, Waning Sovereignty (Zone Books, 2010); Translations: Swedish, Italian; forthcoming in Turkish and
German; published in French prior to the English as Murs: Les Murs de Separation et le Declin de la
Souverainete Etatique (Paris: Les Prairies Ordinaires, 2009)
Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Empire and Identity (Princeton University Press, 2006)
Translations: Korean, Japanese; forthcoming in Italian and Romanian
Edgework: Essays on Knowledge and Politics (Princeton University Press, 2005)
Politics Out of History, (Princeton University Press, 2001) Translations: Turkish, Greek, forthcoming in Italian
States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity (Princeton University Press, 1995); Translations
forthcoming in Italian, French and Greek
Manhood and Politics: A Feminist Reading in Political Theory (Rowman and Littlefield, 1988)
Edited and Co-authored Books
The Power of Tolerance: A Debate Between Wendy Brown and Rainer Forst, edited by Christoph Holzhey and
Manuele Gragnolati (Berlin: Turia and Kant), forthcoming 2012
Is Critique Secular? Injury, Blasphemy and Free Speech, co-authored with Judith Butler, Saba Mahmood and
Talal Asad (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009) (French, Italian, Japanese, Swedish, Turkish
translations forthcoming)
Left Legalism/Left Critique, ed. with Janet Halley (Duke University Press, 2002)
Books of Essays in Other Languages
Отвъд толерантността и оскърблението. Бъдещето на политологията (Beyond Tolerance and Injury: The
Future of Political Theory) introduction by Miglena Nikolchina, (Sofia, Bulgaria: Altera Publishers,
2011)
Wendy Brown: Att vinna framtiden ater, introduction by Leila Brannstrom (Stockholm, Sweden: Atlas, 2008)
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Les Habits neufs de la politique: Neoliberalisme et neoconservatisme, introduction by Laurent Jeanpierre (Paris:
Les Prairies Ordinaires, 2007)
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Is Capital Secular: Marx on Religion and Capital
Citizenship Downsized and Sacrificed: Neoliberal Austerity Politics
COURSES TAUGHT (past 12 years only)
Undergraduate Courses
Introduction to Political Theory
Early Modern (16th-18th C.) Political Theory
Modern (19th- 20th C.) Political Theory
Feminist Theory
What is Political Freedom?
Graduate Courses
Secularism, Democracy, Violence (with Saba Mahmood)
Nineteenth Century Foundations of Critical Theory: Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Critiques of Humanism
On the Autonomy of the Political
On Sovereignty
On Critique
Foucault: Power, Discourse, and the Subject
On Tolerance (from Hobbes - present)
Genealogical Politics: Nietzsche, Foucault, Derrida, Habermas
Early Modern Political Theory (Machiavelli through Burke)
Modern Political Theory (Marx through Weber)
Emancipation: Classics in Feminist Theory
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