Wendy Brown (political scientist)

Wendy Brown
Brown in Berkeley, 2016.
Born	(1955-11-28) November 28, 1955 (age 62)
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy Critical theory Third-wave feminism Queer theory Postmodernism Post-structuralism Critical legal studies
Main interests	Democracy Sovereignty Citizenship Rights Gender Identity Power Discourse Tolerance Psychoanalysis Liberalism Neoliberalism
Influences Karl Marx Michel Foucault Sigmund Freud Friedrich Nietzsche Frankfurt School Sheldon Wolin

Wendy L. Brown (born November 28, 1955) is an American political theorist. She is Class of 1936 First Professor of Political Science and a core faculty member in The Program for Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley.

Wendy Brown received her BA in both Economics and Political Science from UC Santa Cruz, and her M.A and Ph.D in political philosophy from Princeton University. Before she took a position at UC Berkeley in 1999, Brown taught at Williams College and UC Santa Cruz. At Berkeley, beyond her primary teaching roles in Political Theory and Critical Theory, Brown is also an affiliated faculty member of the Department of Rhetoric, the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, the Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender and Sexuality, and the Designated Emphasis in Early Modern Studies.

Brown lectures around the world and has held numerous visiting and honorary positions, including at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, the Goethe University in Frankfurt, the UC Humanities Research Institute in Irvine, the Institute for the Humanities Critical Theory Summer School at Birkbeck, University of London (2012, 2015), a Senior Invited Fellow of the Center for Humanities at Cornell University (2013), a Visiting Professor at Columbia University (2014), a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Lecturer (2014), a Visiting Professor of Law and Government at Cornell University (2015), the Shimizu Visiting Professor of Law at the London School of Economics (2015), and a Visiting Professor at the European Graduate School (2016).