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 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.
• Creating Authority, the second volume in the Taking Culture Seriously series (Routledge), co-edited with Richard Sennett.
• Habermas and Religion (with Eduardo Mendieta and  Jonathan VanAntwerpen). Cambridge: Polity.

In Progress

• Picturing Algeria, by Pierre Boudieu, translated from the French, to be published next year by Columbia/SSRC Books (Calhoun will contribute the introduction).