Craig Calhoun has been Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) since September 2012. Before taking up his post at the LSE, he was President of the Social Science Research Council, and taught at the University of North Carolina, Columbia, and NYU where he was most recently University Professor of Social Sciences and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge.
Calhoun’s many publications bring together theory and empirical research across several disciplines. Among his books on politics and social movements are Neither Gods Nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China and The Roots of Radicalism.
He has also published extensively on nationalism and globalization; economic and technological change; critical social theory; the history of social science; and secularism, religion, and the public sphere including Rethinking secularism [2011], Habermas and religion [2013] and The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere [2011].