Faculty

Stephen J. Collier

Associate Professor, International Affairs

PhD in Anthropology, University of California

Stephen J. Collier received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001, and held research and teaching positions at Columbia University before joining the Graduate Program in International Affairs in 2003. He has conducted research in Russia, Georgia, and the United States and published on a range of topics including post-socialism, neoliberalism, infrastructure, social welfare, and contemporary security. He is the author of Post-Soviet Social: Neoliberalism, Social Modernity, Biopolitics (Princeton, 2011), and is the co-editor of Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics and Ethics as Anthropological Problems (Blackwell, 2004,) and of Biosecurity Interventions (Columbia University Press, 2008). He is currently completing a book on the government of catastrophe in the United States after World War II.

Courses Taught

Neoliberalism; Governing International Emergencies; Global Flows; Cities, Infrastructure, and Development; Critical Security Studies

Research Interests

Post-socialism, neoliberalism, infrastructure, social welfare, and contemporary security.