Social Science Research Council
Craig Calhoun
Craig Calhoun has been President of the Social Science Research Council since 1999. He is also University Professor of the Social Sciences at NYU, and Director of its Institute for Public Knowledge. After receiving his doctorate from Oxford University, Calhoun taught at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill from 1977 to 1996. He was Dean of the Graduate School and the founding Director of the University Center for International Studies. He has also taught at the Beijing Foreign Studies University, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and the Universities of Asmara, Khartoum, Oslo, and Oxford. Calhoun's empirical research has ranged from Britain and France to China and three different African countries. His study of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 resulted in the prize-winning book, Neither Gods Nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China (California, 1994). Among his other works are Nationalism (Minnesota, 1997), Critical Social Theory: Culture, History, and the Challenge of Difference (Blackwell, 1995), and several edited collections including Habermas and the Public Sphere (MIT, 1992), Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics (Minnesota, 1997), Understanding September 11 (New Press, 2002), and Lessons of Empire (New Press, 2005).
Posts by Craig Calhoun:
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Episode #1: All Politics Are Identity Politics?
I’ve been urging more public social science for years, but doing it in pretty traditional media - academic articles and essays on the web. My colleagues have convinced me to experiment with another medium. This posting launches a series of podcasts. My colleague Paul Price, the SSRC’s editorial director, is organizing interviews to bring out social science issues related to the US presidential contest. The first episode, “All Politics Are Identity Politics” takes up a theme that became especially prominent in the democratic primaries.
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