Quinn Slobodian

Professor of International History

Quinn Slobodian is the author or editor of seven books including his most recent, Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed (2026), which was co-authored with Ben Tarnoff and published by HarperCollins. This followed his previous book, Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right (Zone Books, 2025) which received the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. Additional works include Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World without Democracy, which has been translated into eight languages, and Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (Harvard University Press, 2018), won the American Historical Association’s George Louis Beer Prize.

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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