President of the Berggruen Institute; Director and Centennial Professor, London School of Economics; Global Distinguished Professor of Sociology at New York University[3]
Spouse
Pamela F. DeLargy
Academic background
Alma mater
University of Southern California (BA)
Columbia University (MA)
University of Manchester (MA)
St Antony's College, Oxford (DPhil)
Thesis
Community, Class and Collective Action[1] (1980)
Doctoral advisor
Ronald Max Hartwell[2]
Academic work
Discipline
Sociology
Sub-discipline
Comparative historical sociology
Institutions
Columbia University
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
New York University
London School of Economics
Main interests
Social theory
social movements
social change[3]
Craig Calhoun
President of the Berggruen Institute
In office September 2016 – June 2018
Director of the London School of Economics
In office September 2012 – September 2016
Preceded by
Judith Rees
Succeeded by
Julia Black (acting) Nemat Shafik
Craig Jackson CalhounFBA FAcSS (born 1952) is an American sociologist who currently serves as the University Professor of Social Sciences at Arizona State University.[4] He is a strong advocate for applying social science to address issues of public concerns. Calhoun served as the Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) from September 2012 until September 2016 and continues to hold the title of Centennial Professor of Sociology at LSE.[5]
Before this tenure at LSE, Calhoun led the Social Science Research Council,[6] and held the position of University Professor of the Social Sciences at New York University (NYU). He was also the Director of NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge. After LSE, he became the first president[7] of the Berggruen Institute, where he now serves as a senior advisor to the Berggruen Prize.[8][9]
^Calhoun, Craig (1980). Community, Class and Collective Action: Popular Protest in Industrializing England and the Theory of Working Class Radicalism (DPhil thesis). Oxford: University of Oxford. Archived from the original on December 13, 2019. Retrieved October 22, 2016.
^"Community, class and collective action: popular protest in industrializing England and the theory of working-class radicalism". Institute of Historical Research (IHR) Online. Archived from the original on October 23, 2016. Retrieved October 22, 2016.
^ ab"Craig J Calhoun - NYU Sociology". NYU Department of Sociology. Retrieved October 22, 2016.
^"Craig Calhoun, former president of London School of Economics and Political Science, joins ASU". ASU News. 2018-07-05. Retrieved 2023-09-15.
^"Craig Calhoun". International Science Council. Retrieved 2023-09-17.
^"Craig Calhoun – The Immanent Frame". SSRC The Immanent Frame. Retrieved 2023-09-17.
^Gardels, Nathan (2016-02-04). "London School of Economics Chief to Run Berggruen Institute". HuffPost. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
^"Dr. Craig Calhoun Retires as President of Berggruen Institute - News - Berggruen Institute". www.berggruen.org. 2018-05-21. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
Craig Jackson Calhoun FBA FAcSS (born 1952) is an American sociologist who currently serves as the University Professor of Social Sciences at Arizona...
next Director of the London School of Economics, replacing sociologist CraigCalhoun. She took up the post on 1 September 2017. During Shafik's directorship...
New York, New York: John Wiley & Sons. pp. 5–7. ISBN 0-471-04726-0. CraigCalhoun; Joseph Gerteis; James Moody; Steven Pfaff; Indermohan Virk (6 March...
Archived from the original on 26 August 2019. Retrieved 26 August 2019. Craig J Calhoun is university professor in social sciences at Arizona State University...
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Walker stops Paul Craig, breaks out the worm". Cageside Press. Retrieved 22 January 2023. Calhoun, Curtis (15 May 2023). "Paul Craig set for UFC Middleweight...
23: 421–439. doi:10.1146/annurev-polisci-050718-033542. Calhoun, Craig (1994). CraigCalhoun (ed.). Social Theory and the Politics of Identity. Blackwell...
these groups seek an independent nation-state. Some scholars, such as CraigCalhoun and Eric Hobsbawm, among others, criticize cultural definitions for...
"Traditionalist" Islamic activism: Deoband, tablighis, and talibs. In: CraigCalhoun, Paul Price, Ashley Timmer (Ed.): Understanding September 11. New York:...
Political Cultures: Placing Habermas in the Nineteenth Century,” in CraigCalhoun, ed., Habermas and the Public Sphere (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT...
Gregorio F. Zaide (1965). World History. . p. 274. ISBN 978-9712314728. Calhoun, Craig (1993). "Nationalism and Ethnicity". Annual Review of Sociology. 19:...
Kenneth Prewitt (1995–1998), Orville Gilbert Brim Jr. (1998–1999), and CraigCalhoun (1999–2012)—the SSRC closed down its area committees in favor of a reorganized...
antisemitism; and contemporary global transformations. He was co-editor with CraigCalhoun and Edward LiPuma of Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives and author of Time...
are three principal analyses. Theorists such as Alex Callinicos and CraigCalhoun offer a conservative position on the nature of contemporary society...
Religion. 12 (1): 121. doi:10.1558/imre.v12i1.121. ISSN 1743-1697. CraigCalhoun (2008). "A Secular Age [review of book by Charles Taylor]". European...
Political Cultures: Placing Habermas in the Nineteenth Century", in CraigCalhoun, ed., Habermas and the Public Sphere (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT...
occasion of the English translation, at which Habermas himself attended, CraigCalhoun (1992) edited Habermas and the Public Sphere – a thorough dissection...
of Secularism in a Secular Age (Harvard University Press, 2010) with CraigCalhoun and Jonathan VanAntwerpen The Portable Walt Whitman, Edited by Michael...
(3rd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-860986-5. Calhoun, Craig, ed. 2002. "Sociology." Dictionary of the Social Sciences. Oxford: Oxford...
Wallerstein with Randall Collins, Michael Mann, Georgi Derluguian and CraigCalhoun New York: Oxford University Press 2015 The World is Out of Joint: World-Historical...
Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities Ideas of António Damasio – JRSM book review Antonio Damasio in conversation with CraigCalhoun on YouTube...
to broaden constitutional patriotism within a universal framework. CraigCalhoun offers a competing framework that reflects the ideas of cosmopolitanism...
Alain Caillé, French sociologist Roger Caillois, French sociologist CraigCalhoun, American sociologist Michel Callon, French sociologist Charles Camic...
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