BIO: William E. Connolly is Krieger Eisenhower Professor at the Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University. In a poll of American political theorists published in PS in 2010, he was ranked the fourth most influential political theorist in the U.S.A over the last twenty years, after Rawls, Habermas, and Foucault. His recent books include Facing The Planetary: Entangled Humanism and the Politics of Swarming (2017); Aspirational Fascism: The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy Under Trumpism (2017), Climate Machines, Fascist Drives, and Truth (2020), Resounding Events: Adventures of an Academic from the Working Class (2022)
Other books include Why I Am Not A Secularist (1999); Neuropolitics (2002); Pluralism (2005); Capitalism and Christianity, American Style (2008); A World of Becoming (2011); and The Fragility of Things: Self-Organizing Systems, Neoliberal Fantasies and Democratic Activism (2013).
In 2017 he was presented the Distinguished Scholar Award by the International Studies Association for his body of work on the new pluralism, secularism, global capitalism, and planetary processes. In 2020 the Western Political Science Association announced the William E. Connolly Award to be given yearly for the best paper in political theory.
