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Wendy Brown

American political theorist · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1955 · age 70

Wendy L. Brown is an American political theorist. She is the UPS Foundation Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ.

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2022Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesAward2017“Neoliberalism is essentially a form of governing that sees democracy as an obstacle, at best, or as an illegitimate intervention into the rule of the market, at worst.”In their wordsMarch 2017Neoliberalism Has Eviscerated the Fabric of Social Life, interview with Wendy Brown by Adam Ostolski, Green European Journal, March 2017

“Terrorism conjoins with neoliberalism to heighten a sense of insecurity and even a sense that the nation state now fails to provide for the security of the people.”In their wordsMarch 2017Neoliberalism Has Eviscerated the Fabric of Social Life, interview with Wendy Brown by Adam Ostolski, Green European Journal, March 2017

Guggenheim FellowshipAward1955Born28 November 1955

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Awards

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences2022
Guggenheim Fellowship2017

About this person

Previously, she was Class of 1936 First Professor of Political Science and a core faculty member of critical theory at the University of California, Berkeley.

Country
United States
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
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Dates
Born 1955 · age 70

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