Julian Go
Julian Go
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Chicago (2000)
Sociology 263 | 617.358.0638 | juliango@bu.edu
Homepage: http://people.bu.edu/juliango/
Network: Political Power and Social Theory, Empire Network
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
BIO AND RESEARCH
Julian Go is Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston University. Previously he was an Academy Scholar at the Academy for International and Area Studies of Harvard University and Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois. At BU, he is also a Faculty Affiliate in Asian Studies and the American Studies/New England Studies program. He is the winner of the 2007 Wisneski Teaching Award for the College of Arts and Sciences; former elected member of the Council and Chair (2012-13) of the Comparative-Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association; and is on the editorial board of the journal Sociological Theory. Julian is also editor of Political Power and Social Theory, an award-winning annual interdisciplinary journal of politics, power, and social relations.
Julian received his B.A. in Sociology & Political Science from the University of Michigan (1992), his M.A. in sociology from the University of Chicago (1995) and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago (2000). He joined the faculty of Boston University’s sociology department in 2004. Julian’s teaching and research areas include comparative-historical sociology, globalization, cultural sociology, social theory, and colonialism and post-colonialism. He has received grants or fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the MacArthur Foundation & the University of Chicago Council on Advanced Studies in Peace and International Cooperation, the Harvard Academy, the United States Department of Education, the American Sociological Association-National Science Foundation (Funds for the Advancement of the Discipline), and the International Institute of the Sociology of Law.
Much of Julian’s work has focused upon the United States empire and American colonialism, examining them from the perspective of cultural sociology, political sociology, and comparative-historical sociology. This research has resulted in various articles and various book projects: The American Colonial State in the Philippines: Global Perspectives (co-edited with Anne Foster, Duke University Press, 2003), American Empire and the Politics of Meaning (Duke University Press, 2008) (co-winner of the Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book from the Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association and Finalist for the Philippines National Book Award), and Patterns of Empire: the British and American Empires, 1688 to Present (Cambridge University Press, 2011). He is also editor of the book, to be published by the Vibal Foundation in the Philippines, More American Than We Admit.
Julian has recently organized, with Gurminder Bhambra (of Warwick University, UK), a series of conferences on “Cosmpolitanism and Postcolonialism.” He has recently completed an essay on comparative sociological methods and a chapter “Crossing Empire” on anti-imperialism in the US empire (for Jay Sexton and Ian Tyrrell’s project at Oxford on American Anti-Imperialism). Currently Julian is working on a pooled time-series analysis of imperial expansion in the world-system; Fanon’s postcolonial cosmopolitanism; a study of cosmopolitan colonial elite interaction across the US empire; and a series of works on “Postcolonial Sociologies.”
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Recent Books
2011. Patterns of Empire: the British and American Empires, 1688 to Present (Cambridge University Press).
2008. American Empire and the Politics of Meaning: Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico. Duke University Press. Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, Sociology of Culture Section, American Sociological Association, 2009 (co-winner); Finalist, National Book Awards, Philippines, 2009.
Edited Books
In Press. More American than We Admit: the influence of American culture on the Philippines. Manila: Vibal Foundation
2003. co-edited with Anne Foster. The American Colonial State in the Philippines: Global Perspectives. Durham: Duke University Press.
Recent Articles & Chapters
In Press. “For a Postcolonial Sociology.” Theory & Society
In Press. “Beyond Metrocentrism: Empire and Globalism in Early US Sociology.” Journal of Classical Sociology
In Press. “Entangled Empires: Transitions to the American Era“ in Alfred McCoy, ed., Eclipse of Empires. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
In Press. “Sociology’s Imperial Unconscious: Early American Sociology in a Global Context.” in Sociology and Empire, edited by George Steinmetz. Durham: Duke University Press.
2009. “The ‘New’ Sociology of Empire and Colonialism” Sociology Compass 3: 1-14.
2008. “Global Fields and Imperial Forms: Field Theory and the US and British Empires.” Sociological Theory 26(3): 201-229.
2007. “The Provinciality of American Empire: ‘Liberal Exceptionalism and US Colonial Rule.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 49 (1): 74-108.
2007. “Waves of American Empire, 1787-2003: US Hegemony and Imperialistic Activity from the Shores of Tripoli to Iraq.”International Sociology 22(1): 5-40.
See PDF or http://people.bu.edu/juliango/ for complete publications list.