Julian Go

Julian Go, an award-winning scholar and former Academy Scholar at Harvard University's Academy for International and Area Studies, is currently Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, where is also a Faculty Affiliate at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture and the Committee on International Relations. He attended high school at the University Liggett School in Grosse Pointe, MI, and then 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). His prize winning books include American Empire and the Politics of Meaning, which received the Best Book Prize in Cultural Sociology from the American Sociological Association and was a Finalist for the Philippines National Book Prize. His second book, Patterns of Empire: the British and American Empires, 1688 to Present (Cambridge University Press, 2011), won the prize for Best Book in Global & Transnational Sociology from the American Sociological Association, the American Political Science Association’s J. David Greenstone Book Award for the Best Book in Politics and History in 2010 and 2011, the 2013 Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations from the International Studies Association, and was one of Choice’s “Outstanding Academic Titles” in 2012. He is also the author of Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory (Oxford University Press, 2016) and Policing Empires: Race, Militarization and the Imperial Boomerang (Oxford University Press, 2024).