Gopal Balakrishnan

Gopal Balakrishnan
Born	(1966-02-27) February 27, 1966 New Delhi, India
Occupation(s)	scholar, professor
Board member of	New Left Review
Academic background
Alma mater	University of California, Los Angeles (Ph.D., 1998) (M.A., 1993) Cornell University (B.A., 1989)
Thesis	'The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt' (1998)
Doctoral advisor	Rogers Brubaker, Robert Brenner, Perry Anderson
Academic work
Discipline	Historian
Sub-discipline	European Intellectual History
Institutions	University of California, Santa Cruz (2005-) University of Chicago (2001-2005)

Gopal Balakrishnan is a professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, working on political thought, intellectual history, and critical theory.

Balakrishnan studied European intellectual history and historical sociology at UCLA during the 1990s with Perry Anderson, Robert Brenner, Rogers Brubaker, and Michael Mann.

Prior to moving to Santa Cruz, he was an assistant professor at the University of Chicago. He is currently a member of the editorial board of the New Left Review.

Sexual harassment accusations

In 2017, an anonymous statement containing seven different accounts accused Balakrishnan of sexual assault, sexual harassment, unprofessional behavior, and gender-based discrimination. The statement alleges that Balakrishnan created a hostile environment that prevented "women and gender nonconforming people, especially younger people with less social capital, from participating in political and intellectual spaces." Several of the accounts allege that Balakrishnan inappropriately offered drugs and alcohol to young female students and that he assaulted a woman attending a social event in relation to a literature symposium.

Balakrishnan has dismissed the accusations being mere gossip, further stating that "This spring I was subject to a nearly two and half months of graffiti attacking me in my workplace, accusing me of being a sexual predator, followed more by anonymous leafleting along the same lines, which called for a boycott of my classes, also that I no longer be invited to conferences and that my work be ignored." He has taken a leave of absence from the university.

A university spokesman has stated that if true, these allegations would "represent a serious violation of campus policy." A Title IX investigation is ongoing.

Selected publications

Books

• Balakrishnan, Gopal; Anderson, Benedict, eds. (1996). "Mapping the nation". Verso. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• Balakrishnan, Gopal (2000). "The enemy: an intellectual portrait of Carl Schmitt". Verso. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• Balakrishnan, Gopal, ed. (2003). "Debating Empire". Verso. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• Balakrishnan, Gopal (2009). "Antagonistics: capitalism and power in an age of war". Verso. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

Articles

• Balakrishnan, Gopal (September–October 2000). "Hardt and Negri's Empire". New Left Review. II (5). New Left Review. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)

Review of the book Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri.

• Balakrishnan, Gopal (September–October 2003). "Algorithms of war". New Left Review. II (23). New Left Review. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)

Review of the book The Shield of Achilles by Philip Bobbitt.

• Balakrishnan, Gopal (September–October 2009). "Speculations on the stationary state". New Left Review. II (59). New Left Review. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)
• Balakrishnan, Gopal (November–December 2010). "The coming contradiction". New Left Review. II (66). New Left Review. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)

Review of the book Valences of the Dialectic by Frederic Jameson.

External links

• Review of The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt