Craig Calhoun

A comparative and historical sociologist and social theorist, Calhoun is engaged in anthropology, communications, economics, history, international studies, political science, philosophy, and science and technology studies.

Biography Publications

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News

Interview: Campus protests at Universities, Arizona PBS
Publication: Democracy Is Incomplete: Response to Crawford, Hechter, Zielonka, and Zipperstei (with Dilip Gaonkar and Charles Taylor) Global Perspectives (2023) 4 (1): 77460.
Publication: Immanuel Wallerstein and the Genesis of World-Systems Analysis Journal of World-Systems Research, 29(2), 257–285. https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2023.1197
Interview: La desigualdad es un problema para la democracia

Biography and CV

Projects

Dr. Calhoun’s current research focuses on contemporary transformations, and possible futures: for the political economy of the modern world-system, for universities and knowledge institutions, for democracy, and for shifting structures of social solidarity from local communities to nations, transnational relations, and the reorganization of regions. More philosophically, he is exploring the relationship between transformation and transcendence in understanding human existence itself.

Projects

Events

Reversing the Degenerations of Democracy

Panel on Immanuel Wallerstein's Contributions to Social Science

Global Leadership in Troubled Times

Public Understanding and Use of Statistics in Relation to the Pandemic

Between State and Civil Society: Who Protects Individual Liberties and Human Dignity?