Gopal Balakrishnan

Gopal Balakrishnan was a professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, until he was fired due to allegations of sexual assault.

Gopal Balakrishnan
Born	(1966-02-27) February 27, 1966 (age 59)[1] New Delhi, India[2]
Occupation	scholar
Academic background
Alma mater	University of California, Los Angeles (Ph.D., 1998) (M.A., 1993) Cornell University (B.A., 1989)[2]
Thesis	'The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt' (1998)
Doctoral advisor	Robert Brenner, Perry Anderson[3]
Academic work
Discipline	Historian
Sub-discipline	European Intellectual History
Institutions	University of California, Santa Cruz (2005-2019) University of Chicago (2001-2005)[4]

Balakrishnan studied European intellectual history and historical sociology at UCLA during the 1990s with Perry Anderson, Robert Brenner, Rogers Brubaker, and Michael Mann. He worked on political thought, intellectual history, and critical theory. Prior to his appointment at UC-Santa Cruz, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago.

In 2017, a number of people published allegations that Balakrishnan had committed sexual assault on multiple occasions. UC Santa Cruz launched an investigation in 2017 that was extended in May 2018.^[5][6] In October 2018, Balakrishnan remained on paid administrative leave.^{[7][8][9][10]} He subsequently resigned as a member of the editorial board of the New Left Review.^[4] In September 2019, he was fired from his position at UCSC, becoming the first tenured faculty member to be fired at UCSC.^[11][12]

Selected publications

Books

• Balakrishnan, Gopal; Anderson, Benedict, eds. (1996). Mapping the nation. Verso.
• Balakrishnan, Gopal (2000). The enemy: an intellectual portrait of Carl Schmitt. Verso.
• Balakrishnan, Gopal, ed. (2003). Debating Empire. Verso.
• Balakrishnan, Gopal (2009). Antagonistics: capitalism and power in an age of war. Verso.

Articles

• Balakrishnan, Gopal (September–October 2000). "Hardt and Negri's Empire". New Left Review. II (5). New Left Review.

Review of the book Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri.

• Balakrishnan, Gopal (September–October 2003). "Algorithms of war". New Left Review. II (23). New Left Review.

Review of the book The Shield of Achilles by Philip Bobbitt.

• Balakrishnan, Gopal (September–October 2009). "Speculations on the stationary state". New Left Review. II (59). New Left Review.
• Balakrishnan, Gopal (November–December 2010). "The coming contradiction". New Left Review. II (66). New Left Review.

Review of the book Valences of the Dialectic by Frederic Jameson.