Wendy Brown, Council University of California, Berkeley

Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley
Council 2007-09

Wendy Brown is professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is also a faculty affiliate of the interdisciplinary graduate programs in Critical Theory and in Women, Gender and Sexuality.   Prior to her 1999 appointment at Berkeley, she taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and at Williams College.   Her Ph.D in Political Philosophy is from Princeton University, and her bachelor’s degree, in economics and politics, is from UC Santa Cruz.  She has held visiting appointments at the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, the Goethe University in Frankfurt, and the Humanities Research Institute in Irvine.  She has also been the recipient of distinguished teaching awards and fellowships, including awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Ford Foundation, and the American Association of University Women.

Brown is the author of Manhood and Politics: A Feminist Reading in Political Theory (Rowman and Littlefield, 1988), States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity (Princeton, 1995), Politics Out of History (Princeton, 2001),  Left Legalism/Left Critique, co-edited with Janet Halley (Duke, 2002), Edgework (Princeton, 2005), and Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire (Princeton, 2006).   Selections of her recent essays are also forthcoming as books in French, Greek, Bulgarian, and Swedish.  Her articles appear in a range of journals and anthologies in the fields of political theory, philosophy, law, literature, cultural theory, and feminist theory.

For the American Political Science Association, Brown has served on the Professional Ethics and Freedoms Committee, as annual meeting program chair for the Normative Political Theory section, and on the selection committees for the Victoria Shuck book award and the David Easton book award.  She was also a founding member of the Gay-Lesbian Caucus and has been its program chair.  Among the many editorial boards on which she serves are two political science journals, Polity and Political Research Quarterly.  She is also on the executive editorial board of Political Theory, the executive council of the Foundations of Political Theory section, and was a founding board member of Theory and Event.