Wendy Brown is UPS Foundation Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. A political theorist with previous appointments at the University of California, Berkeley, Williams College, and UC Santa Cruz, Brown studies the history of political theory, feminist theory, contemporary critical theories of law, nineteenth and twentieth century Continental theory, and contemporary American political culture. Brown is the author of nine books and the editor of six collections of essays. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages, some of which include Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution, and In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Anti-Democratic Politics in the West. She has held visiting positions at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, Goethe University in Frankfurt, University of London, Cornell, Columbia, the London School of Economics, and the European Graduate School. She has delivered numerous distinguished lectures and lecture series, including the Tanner Lectures at Yale, the Welleck Lectures at UC Irvine, the Beaverbrook lecture at McGill, the Gauss lecture at Princeton, and many more. In 2017-18 she was a Simon Guggenheim Fellow and UC Presidents Humanities Research Fellow. In 2021, Brown received the Berkeley Citation—UC Berkeley's highest faculty honor.
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