Social Science Research Council

At present, Craig’s Calhoun’s main individual intellectual project concerns “humanitarianism,” which includes researching both the contemporary approach to disasters and suffering as well as the the longer term history of modern approaches. His main SSRC project is encouraging a more public social science and social science contributions to the renewal of the public sphere.

His latest solo book, Cosmopolitanism and Belonging: From European Integration to Global Hopes and Fears, will come out early next year from Routledge. This work uses the lens of European integration to address the biases towards cosmopolitan theories from the standpoint of European and American élites and indeed the heritage of liberal thought.

Also Forthcoming

• Roots of Radicalism: Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early 19th Century Social Movements, a collection of Craig Calhoun’s historical essays, to be published by University of Chicago Press in 2008.
• Creating Authority, the second volume in the Taking Culture Seriously series (Routledge), co-edited with Richard Sennett.
• “The Visions and Divisions of American Sociology” (with Troy Duster and Jonathan VanAntwerpen) in the International Handbook on Diverse Sociological Traditions, ed. Sujata Patel (Sage Publications).
• A new book series, co-edited with Jacob Hacker, on the privatization of risk, consisting of five short edited volumes on the various kinds of economic risks facing Americans in the 21st century (Columbia/SSRC Books).

In Progress

• Knowledge Matters (co-edited with Diana Rhoten), on the public mission of research universities.
• Robert K. Merton: Sociological theory and the Sociology of Science, a collection of essays on the famed sociologist.
• Picturing Algeria, by Pierre Boudieu, translated from the French, to be published next year by Columbia/SSRC Books (Calhoun will contribute the introduction).
• Varieties of Secularism in A Secular Age (co-edited with Michael Warner and Jonathan VanAntwerpen). The book, which is now under contract with Harvard University Press, will consist of a series of essays on Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age, which sociologist Robert Bellah has called “one of the most important books to be written in my lifetime.”
• Rethinking Secularism (co-edited with Mark Juergensmeyer and Jonathan VanAntwerpen), a collective work by the members of the SSRC’s Working Group on Religion, Secularism, and International Affairs. The group seeks to reframe discussions of religion in the social sciences by drawing attention to the central issue of how “the secular” is constituted and understood, and how this shapes both analytic perspectives in the social sciences and various practical projects in politics and international affairs.