Gopal Balakrishnan | |
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Fields | Political theory |
Institutions | University of California, Santa Cruz, University of Chicago |
Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles |
Influences | Carl Schmitt, Max Weber, Karl Marx, Perry Anderson, Fredric Jameson |
Gopal Balakrishnan is a professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, working on political thought, intellectual history, and critical theory.
Balakrishnan studied European intellectual history and historical sociology at UCLA during the 1990s with Perry Anderson, Robert Brenner, Rogers Brubaker, and Michael Mann.
Prior to moving to Santa Cruz, he was an assistant professor at the University of Chicago. He is currently a member of the editorial board of the New Left Review.