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Quinn Slobodian
Canadian historian and professor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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] Slobodian is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow.
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Slobodian was born in 1978 in Edmonton, Alberta.[3] His father was a doctor.[3] The family moved to Vancouver Island in 1981, and relocated to Lesotho in Southern Africa a few years later.[3] They left for Vanuatu in the South Pacific, in 1992, and returned to Canada a year later.[3]
He studied history at Lewis & Clark College, graduating in 2000, and was awarded his PhD by New York University in 2008.[4]
Between 2013 and 2014, he was a Fellow at the Dahlem Humanities Centre of Free University Berlin.[5]
In 2015, he became the Marion Butler McLean Professor of the History of Ideas at Wellesley College. He interrupted his teaching career in 2017 for a year as a residential fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.[4]
Since 2024, Slobodian has been Professor of International History at Boston University. In the same year, he was a visiting professor at University of Roma 3.[6] Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.[2][1]
Until January 2025, Slobodian was a co-editor of Contemporary European History.[7]
He has written the books Foreign Front: Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany (2012),[8] Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (2018),[8] and Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy (2023).[9]
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As author:
- Foreign Front: Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany, Duke UP, 2012.
- Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, Harvard UP, 2018.
- Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy, Metropolitan, 2023.
- Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right, Zone Books, April 2025. [10]
As editor:
- Comrades of Color: East Germany in the Cold War World, Berghahn Books, 2015.
- Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, with Dieter Plehwe and Philip Mirowski, Verso, 2020.[11]
- Market Civilizations: Neoliberals East and South, with Dieter Plehwe, Zone Books, 2020.
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