Quinn Slobodian

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Quinn Slobodian
Slobodian in 2023
Born1978 (age 47–48)
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
OccupationsProfessor of International History, Boston University
Academic background
Alma materNew York University (PhD)
Lewis & Clark College
Thesis (2008)
Molly Nolan
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
InstitutionsWellesley College
Free University Berlin
Harvard University
Main interests
Modern European history
International history
Websitewww.quinnslobodian.com

Quinn Slobodian (born 1978) is a Canadian historian of international history. He is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow and 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 at Harvard University.[2]

Early life and education

Slobodian was born in 1978 in Edmonton, Alberta.[3] His father was a doctor.[3] The family moved to Vancouver Island in 1981, and relocated to Lesotho in Southern Africa a few years later.[3] They left for Vanuatu in the South Pacific, in 1992, and returned to Canada a year later.[3] He studied history at Lewis & Clark College, graduating in 2000, and was awarded his PhD by New York University in 2008.[4]

Career

In 2008, Slobodian took up a position as assistant professor of history at Wellesley College. Between 2013 and 2014, he was an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-Volkswagen Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Dahlem Humanities Centre of the Free University Berlin.[5] In 2017–2018, Slobodian was a residential fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.[2][4]

In 2021, Slobodian became the Marion Butler McLean Professor of the History of Ideas at Wellesley College. In Spring 2022, he was visiting associate professor of international and public affairs at Brown University. In fall 2022, he was Thomas McCraw Fellow in U.S. Business History at the Harvard Business School. Since 2024, Slobodian has been professor of international history at Boston University. In the same year, he was a visiting professor at University of Roma 3.[1][6] From 2020 to 2024, he was co-editor of the journal Contemporary European History.[7]

Slobodian has written the books Foreign Front: Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany (2012),[8] Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (2018),[8] Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy (2023),[9] Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right (2025), and Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed (2026).[10]

Publications

As author

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.[12]
  • Market Civilizations: Neoliberals East and South, with Dieter Plehwe, Zone Books, 2020.

References

  1. "Quinn Slobodian | The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies". www.bu.edu. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
  2. "Quinn Slobodian's CV - Wellesley's College" (PDF). June 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 February 2019. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  3. Jacobson, Gavin (15 April 2023). "Fantasies and fever dreams". New Statesman. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  4. "International Students and Scholars: Alumni Profiles". Lewis & Clark College. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
  5. "Quinn Slobodian - Fellow der Volkswagen Stiftung und der Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. September 2013–August 2014. The Discipline of the World Economy: Émigrés against the Global New Deal, 1936-1980". Freie Universität Berlin. Retrieved 23 May 2025.
  6. "Roma Tre - Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici. Visiting Professors & Scholars". Retrieved 4 April 2025.
  7. "Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core". Cambridge Core. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
  8. Spiro, Liat (21 March 2018). "Global Histories of Neoliberalism: An Interview with Quinn Slobodian". Toynbee Prize Foundation. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  9. Denvir, Daniel (28 February 2024). "The Libertarians Who Dream of a World Without Democracy". Jacobin. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  10. Hochuli, Alex (30 March 2026). "Muskism Is the Specter Stalking Our Present". Jacobin. Retrieved 6 April 2026.
  11. "Fetishizing the Right, from McCarthy to Musk". Los Angeles Review of Books. 8 June 2025. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
  12. Philip Mirowski; Dieter Plehwe; Quinn Slobodian (eds.). "Nine Lives of Neoliberalism". www.versobooks.com. Retrieved 28 March 2019.

Further reading