Craig Calhoun

Professor of Social Sciences at Arizona State University, Craig Calhoun is recognised worldwide for his contributions in the fields of social theory, identity politics, nationalism, and analysis of democracy as well as with regard to secularism and capitalism. He has held several prestigious academic positions, notable amongst which are those of President of the Social Research Council in the United States, and Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he continues to hold the title of Centennial Professor of Sociology. His publications, notable for encouraging interdisciplinary discussion among sociology, history, economics, and anthropology include Neither Gods Nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China (University of California Press, 1994), about the 1989 Tiananmen protests, and Nationalism (University of Minnesota Press, 1997 – in Catalan, Nacionalisme, Editorial Afers i Publicacions de la Universitat de València, 2008), as well as several monographic studies in classical and contemporary sociology. He has worked with other eminent intellectuals and has coauthored Does Capitalism Have a Future? (with Immanuel Wallerstein, Randall Collins, Michael Mann, and Georgi Derluguian, Oxford University Press, 2013); Degenerations of Democracy (with Charles Taylor and Dilip Gaonkar, Harvard University Press, 2022); and the collection of articles The Green New Deal and the Future of Work (coedited with Benjamin Y. Fong, Columbia University Press, 2022). His introduction to The Idea of Nationalism: A Study in Its Origins and Background by Hans Kohn (2017) has been published in Catalan as Hans Kohn i la idea del nacionalisme (Editorial Afers, 2023), an essay in which he analyses the person and work of the great American philosopher and historian.