Craig Calhoun

Calhoun is currently completing two books: on the deterioration and renewal of social bases for democracy, and on the tension between cosmopolitanism and nationalism and other forms of more local solidarity. He is also in the earlier stages of projects on the politics of new technologies, the ways infrastructures shape society, and transformations of the university and related knowledge institutions. Among his publications are:

• The Question of Class Struggle: Social Foundations of Popular Radicalism During the Industrial Revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, and Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1982.
• "The Radicalism of Tradition: Community Strength or Venerable Disguise and Borrowed Language?"  American Journal of Sociology, vol. 88, #5, pp. 886-914, 1983.
• "Industrialization and Social Radicalism: British and French Workers' Movements and the Mid-Nineteenth Century Crisis," Theory and Society, vol. 12, #4, pp. 485-504, 1983.
• "Computer Technology, Large-Scale Social Integration and the Local Community," Urban Affairs Quarterly, vol. 22 #2, pp. 329-349, 1986.
• "Populist Politics, Communications Media, and Large-Scale Social Integration," Sociological Theory, vol. 6 #2, pp. 219-241, 1988.
• "Social Theory and the Law: Systems Theory, Normative Justification and Postmodernism," Northwestern University Law Review, vol. 83 #s 1-2, pp. 1701-1763, 1989.
• "Indirect Relationships and Imagined Communities: Large Scale Social Integration and the Trans­formation of Everyday Life," in P. Bourdieu and J.S. Coleman, eds.:  Social Theory for a Changing Society.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press and New York: Russell Sage Foundation, pp. 95-120, 1991.
• "The Infrastructure of Modernity: Indirect Relationships, Information Technology, and Social Integration," in H. Haferkamp and N.J. Smelser, eds.: Social Change and Modernity.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, pp. 205-236, 1992.
• Habermas and the Public Sphere.  Cambridge, MA:  MIT Press, 1992 (edited)
• "Nationalism and Ethnicity," Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 19: 211-39, 1993.
• Neither Gods Nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1994. 
• Social Theory and the Politics of Identity.  Oxford and Cambridge, MA:  Basil Blackwell (edited).
• Critical Social Theory: Culture, History and the Challenge of Difference.  Ox­ford: Basil Blackwell, 1995.
• Nationalism. Buckingham: Open University Press and Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
• Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics, with John McGowan. Minneapolis:  University of Minnesota Press, 1997 (edited)
• “Community without Propinquity Revisited: Communications Technology and the Transformation of the Urban Public Sphere,” Sociological Inquiry, vol. 68 #3, pp. 373-397, 1998.
• “Explanation in Historical Sociology: Narrative, General Theory, and Historically Specific Theory,” American Journal of Sociology, vol. 104 #3, pp. 846-71, 1998.
• “Legacies of Radicalism: China’s Cultural Revolution and the Democracy Movement of 1989” (with Jeffrey Wasserstrom), Thesis 11, 57, pp. 33-52, 1999.
• Understanding September 11: Perspectives from the Social Sciences (with Paul Price and Ashley Timmer). New York: New Press, 2002 (edited).
• “Imagining Solidarity: Cosmopolitanism, Constitutional Patriotism and the Public Sphere,” Public Culture, vol. 14 #1, pp. 147-72, 2002.
• “The Class Consciousness of Frequent Travelers: Toward a Critique of Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism,” South Atlantic Quarterly v. 101#4, pp. 869-97, 2003.
• “A World of Emergencies: Fear, Intervention, and the Limits of Cosmopolitan Order,” The 35th Sorokin Lecture, Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 41.4: 373-95, 2004.
• “The University and the Public Good,” Thesis Eleven, 84, pp. 7-43, 2005.
• Nations Matter: Citizenship, Solidarity, and the Cosmopolitan Dream. Abingdon, Oxford: Routledge, 2007.
• Sociology in America: A History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007 (edited).
• “Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism,” the Ernest Gellner Lecture for 2007, Nations and Nationalism. Vol. 14 #3: 427-449, 2008.
• “Academic Freedom: Public Knowledge and the Structural Transformation of the University,” Social Research: An International Quarterly of the Social Sciences, 76 (2): 561-98, 2009.
• “The Idea of Emergency: Humanitarian Action and Global (Dis)order, pp. 29-58 in Didier Fassin and Mariella Pandolfi, eds., Contemporary States of Emergency. The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions (Cambridge, MA: Zone Books), 2010.
• Knowledge Matters: The Public Mission of the Research University (with Diana Rhoten). New York: Columbia University Press, 2011 (edited).
• Business as Usual; The Roots of the Global Financial Crisis (with Georgi Derlugian). New York: NYU Press, 2011 (edited).
• The Deepening Crisis: Governance Challenges after Neoliberalism  (with Georgi Derlugian). New York: NYU Press, 2011 (edited).
• Aftermath: A New Global Economic Order? (with Georgi Derlugian). New York: NYU Press, 2011 (edited).
• Rethinking Secularism (with Mark Juergensmeyer and Jonathan VanAntwerpen). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011 (edited).
• The Roots of Radicalism: Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early 19th Century Social Movements. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
• “For the Social History of the Present: Pierre Bourdieu as Historical Sociologist,” pp. 36-66 in P.S. Gorski, ed.: Bourdieu and Historical Analysis (Durham, NC: Duke University Press), 2012.
• “The Problematic Public: Revisiting Dewey, Arendt, and Habermas,” in The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, vol. 32, 2013: 67-107.
• Habermas and Religion (with Eduardo Mendieta and Jonathan VanAntwerpen). Cambridge: Polity, 2013 (edited).
• Does Capitalism Have a Future? (with Immanuel Wallerstein, Randall Collins, Michael Mann, and Georgi Derluguian). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
• “Integrating the Social Sciences: Area Studies, Quantitative Methods, and Problem-Oriented Research,” in R. Frodeman and B. Holbrook, eds., Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity, 2nd Ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2017.
• “Populism, Nationalism, and Brexit,” pp. 57-76 in W. Outhwaite, ed.: Brexit: Sociological Responses. London: Anthem Press, 2017.
• “Religious Imaginations and Global Transformations,” pp. 1-18 in J. Walters, ed.: Religion and Global Affairs. London: Routledge, 2018.