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Quinn Slobodian
Biography
Quinn Slobodian is a historian of modern German and international history with a focus on race, migration, social movements, and international political economy. He is the author of Foreign Front: Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany (Duke University Press, 2012), and the editor of Comrades of Color: East Germany in the Cold War World. His work has appeared in Journal of Global History, Journal of Contemporary History, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, German History, and The Baffler. He has held fellowships at the Freie Universität Berlin, the Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam, and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.
This information is accurate for the time period that the scholar is affiliated with CES.
Affiliations
- Professor of International History, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
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Welcome Quinn Slobodian: Professor of International History
We are thrilled to welcome Quinn Slobodian to the Pardee School of Global Studies in January 2024.
A distinguished historian specializing in modern Germany and international history, Slobodian brings a wealth of knowledge and a global perspective to our community.
Slobodian, the author of “Crack-Up Capitalism” and “Globalists,” was recently recognized as one of The World’s Top Thinkers 2024 by Prospect Magazine. The magazine praised Slobodian’s critical yet respected stance on neoliberalism and its globalizing ideals. They noted his meticulous scholarship and that his nuanced approach to debates have garnered admiration, even from those he critiques.
According to Prospect Magazine, “it’s also made him a hero to those worried about the power of unaccountable billionaires and their plans to subvert the democratic order.”
His 2018 book, “Globalists,” earned him the George Louis Beer Prize from the American Historical Association and was translated into seven langua
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Quinn Slobodian
Canadian historian and professor
Quinn Slobodian (born 1978) is a Canadian historian specialising in modern Germany and international history. He is currently Professor of International History at Boston University.[1] Previously, he was the Marion Butler McLean Professor of the History of Ideas at Wellesley College and a Residential Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.[2]
He is the author of the books Foreign Front: Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany (2012),[3]Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (2018),[3] and Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy (2023).[4]
Biography
Slobodian was born in 1978 in Edmonton, Alberta.[5] His father was a doctor.[5] The family moved to Vancouver Island in 1981, and relocated to Lesotho in Southern Africa a few years later.[5] They left for Vanuatu in the South Pacific Ocean in 1992, and returned to Canada a year la
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