Quinn Slobodian

Quinn Slobodian (born 1978) is a Canadian historian of international history. He is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow and Professor of International History at Boston University. His father was a doctor.

Career In 2008, Slobodian took up a position as assistant professor of history at Wellesley College. Between 2013 and 2014, he was an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-Volkswagen Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Dahlem Humanities Centre of the Free University Berlin. In 2017–2018, Slobodian was a residential fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. From 2020 to 2024, he was co-editor of the journal Contemporary European History.

Slobodian has written the books Foreign Front: Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany (2012), Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy (2023), Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right (2025), and Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed (2026).

Publications As author Foreign Front: Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany, Duke UP, 2012. Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, Harvard UP, 2018. Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy, Metropolitan, 2023. Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right, Zone Books, April 2025. Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, with Ben Tarnoff, HarperCollins, 2026

As editor Comrades of Color: East Germany in the Cold War World, Berghahn Books, 2015. Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, with Dieter Plehwe and Philip Mirowski, Verso, 2020. Market Civilizations: Neoliberals East and South, with Dieter Plehwe, Zone Books, 2020.