Corey Robin
Associate Professor
Political Science
Location: 3405 James Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x1752
Fax: 718.951.4833
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Corey Robin is an associate professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin and Fear: The History of a Political Idea (Oxford University Press), which won the Best First Book in Political Theory Award from the American Political Science Association. Fear has been translated into Chinese, French, Greek, Italian, Romanian, Russian and Spanish. Robin's articles have appeared in American Political Science Review, The New York Times and Harper's. He is a frequent contributor to The London Review of Books, The Nation and Raritan. Robin has received grants and fellowships from the Russell Sage Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, Princeton University's Center for Human Values and NYU's International Center for Advanced Study. His blog coreyrobin.com, which he created in 2011, has won several awards.
Education:
Ph.D., Yale University - 1999 (Political Science)
A.B., Princeton University - 1989 (History)
Areas of Expertise:
Robin's primary research is in political theory, with an emphasis on modern political thought. He has written on the politics of fear, conservatism and counterrevolution, liberalism and the Left. He is currently working on a project about the counterrevolutionary origins of free-market economics.
Books and Publications
"Easy to Be Hard: Violence and Conservatism." Performances of Violence. Eds. Carleen Basler, Thomas Dumm and Austin Sarat. Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press. 18-42. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2011
"Reclaiming the Politics of Freedom." The Nation, April 25: 18-22. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2011
The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin. New York: Oxford University Press. (Books and Publications: Book) 2011
"Conservatism and Counterrevolution." Raritan Summer: 1-17. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2010
"Garbage and Gravitas." On Ayn Rand and her affinity for fascism and kitsch. The Nation, June 7: 21-27. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2010
"Get Over It!" On Justice Antonin Scalia and originalism. London Review of Books, June 10: 29-31. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2010
"The Party of Loss." Harper's, December: 17-22. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2010
"Why Conservatives Love War." Chronicle Review, Oct. 24: 8-10. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2010
"You Say You Want a Counterrevolution: Well, You Know, We All Want to Change the World." A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence During Latin America's Long Cold War. Eds. Greg Grandin and Gilbert M. Joseph. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2010
"The First Counterrevolutionary." On Hobbes, Quentin Skinner and the politics of counterrevolution. The Nation, Oct. 19: 25-32. Translated into Latvian: "Pirmais kontrrevolucionārs." Satori: Literatūras un filozofijas portāls, Oct. 15. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2009
"Out of Place." Review essay The Conscience of a Conservative, by Barry Goldwater; Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s, eds. Bruce J. Shulman and Julian E. Zelizer; and They Knew They Were Right, by Jacob Heilbrunn. The Nation, June 23: 25-33. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008
"Dragon-Slayers." Review essay on Hannah Arendt. London Review of Books, Jan. 4: 18-20. Adapted and reprinted as "Did Kissing Up Bring Us Down?" Los Angeles Times, Jan. 14: M3. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2007
"Language and Violence: From Pathology to Politics." Raritan Fall: 41-51. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006
"Was He? Had He?" Review essay on civil liberties and the war on terrorism. London Review of Books, Oct. 19: 10-12. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006
"Liberalism at Bay, Conservatism at Play: Fear in the Contemporary Imagination." Social Research 71, Winter: 927-62. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2004
"Remembrance of Empires Past: 9/11 and the End of the Cold War." Cold War Triumphalism: The Misuse of History After the Fall of Communism. Ed. Ellen Schrecker. The New Press. 274-97. Adapted and reprinted in The Washington Post and The Boston Review. Translated into Italian and Spanish. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2004
Fear: The History of a Political Idea. New York: Oxford University Press. Translated into Italian (2005) and French (2006). Translations into Chinese, Greek, Romanian and Spanish forthcoming. (Books and Publications: Book) 2004
"Reflections on Fear: Montesquieu in Retrieval." American Political Science Review 94, June: 347-60. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2000
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 2007-08. (Grants and Fellowships) 2007
Fellowship, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, 2007-08 (declined). (Grants and Fellowships) 2007
Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2007-08 (declined). (Grants and Fellowships) 2007
Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars, American Council of Learned Societies, 2007-08 (declined). (Grants and Fellowships) 2007
Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellowship, Princeton University Center for Human Values, 2007-08. (Grants and Fellowships) 2007
Best First Book in Political Theory Award, American Political Science Association. (Awards and Honors) 2005
Honorable Mention, Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights. (Awards and Honors) 2005
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice. (Awards and Honors) 2005
Presidential Authority Award, Russell Sage Foundation, 2005-06. (Grants and Fellowships) 2005
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"The Reactionary Mind." University of California at San Diego. February. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"The Reactionary Mind." Yale University. New Haven, Conn., March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"Easy to Be Hard: Violence and Conservatism." Amherst College. Amherst, Mass., February. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
"Easy to Be Hard: Violence and Conservatism." Stanford University. Stanford, Calif., May. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
"Easy to Be Hard: Violence and Conservatism." The New School. New York, September. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
"In Search of Conservatism: From Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin." Rutgers University. April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
Respondent to Martin Jay, "The Virtues of Mendacity: On Lying in Politics." The Lionel Trilling Seminar, Columbia University. New York, October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008
"The Language of Fear: National Security in Modern Politics." John L. Stanley Memorial Lecture. Department of Political Science, University of California at Riverside. February. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007
"The Moral Vocabulary of Fear." Columbia Law School. New York, October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007
"The Moral Vocabulary of Fear." European University Institute. Florence, Italy, November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007
"The Moral Vocabulary of Fear." Killen Chair Lecture. St. Norbert College. De Pere, Wis., October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007
"You Say You Want a Counterrevolution: Well, You Know, We All Want to Change the World." Princeton University. Princeton, N.J., November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007
"You Say You Want a Counterrevolution: Well, You Know, We All Want to Change the World." Rutgers University. November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007
"Fear, the Day After." Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford. November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006
"Louis Hartz at 50: On the Varieties of Counterrevolutionary Experience in America." CUNY Graduate Center. New York, March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006
"Louis Hartz at 50: On the Varieties of Counterrevolutionary Experience in America." Syracuse University. Syracuse, N.Y., April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006
"Louis Hartz at 50: On the Varieties of Counterrevolutionary Experience in America." University of Maryland School of Law. Baltimore, March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006
"Quel rôle joue la peur dans une démocratie?" Institut d'études politiques de Paris. March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006
"The Globalization of Fear." European Forum for Urban Safety. Zaragoza, Spain, November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006
"The Liberalism--and Conservatism--of Fear." Department of Political Science, University of California, Irvine. January. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006
"Fear: History of an Idea." CUNY Graduate Center. February. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2005
"Louis Hartz at 50: On the Varieties of Counterrevolutionary Experience in America." Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2005
"Neoconservatives and Their Empire." Varchi Contemporary History Festival. Rome, October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2005
"The Liberalism--and Conservatism--of Fear." Department of Political Science, McGill University. Montreal, December. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2005
"Fear: History of an Idea." Cambridge University. November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004
"Fear: History of an Idea." Christ Church, University of Oxford. November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004
"Liberalism at Bay, Conservatism at Play: Fear in the Contemporary Imagination." Duke University. Durham, N.C., October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004
"Liberalism at Bay, Conservatism at Play: Fear in the Contemporary Imagination." King's College, University of London. November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004
"Liberalism at Bay, Conservatism at Play: Fear in the Contemporary Imagination." Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, Mass., October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004
