Craig Calhoun is University Professor of Social Sciences at Arizona State University. He was previously President and Director of the London School of Economics, President of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and of the Berggruen Institute, and variously a professor, dean, department chair, and institute director at UNC-Chapel Hill, Columbia, and NYU. He received his doctorate from Oxford University and has been a visiting professor in China, Eritrea, France, Germany, Norway, Sudan and the UK. 

Calhoun’s newest book is Degenerations of Democracy (Harvard 2022, co-authored with Dilip Gaonkar and Charles Taylor). He also recently edited The Green New Deal and the Future of Work (Columbia 2022, with Benjamin Fong). His earlier books have included The Question of Class Struggle (Chicago 1982); Neither Gods nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China (California 1984); Critical Social Theory: Culture, History, and the Challenge of Difference (Blackwell 1995); Nations Matter: Citizenship, Solidarity and the Cosmopolitan Dream (Routledge 2007); and The Roots of Radicalism: Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early 19^th Century Social Movements (Chicago 2012). Calhoun’s numerous articles address social, cultural, and political theory; social movements; technology and social change; publics and politics; community and questions of social cohesion; nationalism and cosmopolitanism; humanitarian emergencies; and universities. He edited the ASA Centennial history of Sociology in America (Chicago 2007) and he joined with Immanuel Wallerstein, Randall Collins, Michael Mann and Georgi Derluguian to publish Does Capitalism Have a Future (Oxford 2013). More information may be found at https://calhoun.faculty.asu.edu.