julian go
Julian Go is Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston University, where is also a Faculty Affiliate in Asian Studies and the American Studies and New England Studies program. Previously he was an Academy Scholar at the Academy for International and Area Studies of Harvard University. He is the winner of the Boston University Wisneski Teaching Award for the College of Arts and Sciences; Chair-Elect of the Comparative-Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association; and is on the editorial board of the journal Sociological Theory. Julian is also editor of Political Power and Social Theory, an annual interdisciplinary journal of politics, power, and social relations.
Julian received his B.A. in Sociology & Political Science from the University of Michigan (1992), his M.A. in sociology from the University of Chicago (1995) and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago (2000). He joined the faculty of Boston University's sociology department in 2004. Julian’s teaching and research areas include comparative-historical sociology, globalization, cultural sociology, social theory, and colonialism and post-colonialism. He has received grants or fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the MacArthur Foundation & the University of Chicago Council on Advanced Studies in Peace and International Cooperation, the Harvard Academy, the United States Department of Education, and the American Sociological Association-National Science Foundation (Funds for the Advancement of the Discipline). His 2008 book American Empire and the Politics of Meaning won the Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book from the Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association.
For more information visit his department webpage.
SEE ALSO Political Power and Social Theory
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dept. of sociology
boston university
96 cummington st.
boston, ma 02116
617.358.0638
