Quinn Slobodian
Professor of International History
Quinn Slobodian is the author or editor of seven books including his most recent, Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right (Zone Books, 2025) which was named as a finalist for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Awards. This followed his previous work, Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World without Democracy, which has been translated into eight languages. A previous book, Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (Harvard University Press, 2018), won the American Historical Association’s George Louis Beer Prize. His forthcoming book, Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, co-authored with Ben Tarnoff, is expected for release in April 2026.
Slobodian has held fellowships at Harvard University, Freie Universität Berlin, and Roma Tre, and his work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Andrew S. Mellon Foundation, and the Volkswagen Foundation. He was a research fellow at Chatham House, is co-director of the History and Political Economy Project, and writes frequently for New Statesman, New York Review of Books, New York Times, and elsewhere. For 2025-26, he is a Guggenheim Fellow.
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