Wendy Brown is a political theorist who is currently the UPS Foundation Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey. She is one of the leading political theorists alive today, though her wide-ranging work has also led to affiliations with social policy, gender and sexuality studies, and critical theory programs. Brown has also taught as a professor at UC Berkeley and a visiting professor at universities including Columbia, the London School of Economics, and the European Graduate School.
Brown was born in California and spent most of her life and career there. After receiving her BA from the University of California, Santa...