Rate My Professor Wendy Brown

Born and raised in California’s Central Valley, Brown received her BA in Economics and Politics from UC Santa Cruz and her PhD in Political Philosophy from Princeton University in 1983. She is the author or co-author of a dozen books, including States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity (1995), Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire (2006), Walled States, Waning Sovereignty (2010), Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution (2015), and In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West (2019). Her work, translated into more than twenty languages, has been supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and others. Brown has held visiting professorships and fellowships at institutions including Cornell, Columbia, Duke, the London School of Economics, and the University of Witwatersrand. She is currently exploring how political freedom can be reformulated in light of regimes of class, race, and gender subjection and the climate crisis, and she is extending her 2019 Yale Tanner Lectures on politics and knowledge in nihilistic times.