Led by 3CT fellows, these multi-year thematic projects enable conversation and collaboration across disciplines on contemporary problems and current issues in contemporary theory.
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The Corporate University
PI: 3CT Fellows
From budget deficits to the reliance on adjunct labor, from anxieties about “woke” campus politics to worries about “cancel culture,” from the erosion of faculty governance to the empowerment of consultants and trustees, the university as an institution is being transformed.
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Global Capitalisms
PI: 3CT Fellows
Any adequate theorization of the contemporary requires an empirically attuned and theoretically sophisticated understanding of the dynamics, forms, and trajectories that global capitalism takes today.
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Reimagining Cosmopolitanism
PI: Dipesh Chakrabarty and Lisa Wedeen
What does it mean to be a citizen of the world today? This project aims to creatively and critically theorize new forms, sites, and manifestations of cosmopolitanism and to develop a new set of conceptual tools and categories.
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New Global Authoritarianisms
PI: Andreas Glaeser and Lisa Wedeen
This project facilitates ongoing conversations on the fate of liberal democracy, attending to the role that new authoritarianisms are playing in reversing the global trend towards inclusive and democratic forms of government.
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Global Crowds
PI: William Mazzarella
This project explores the resurgence of crowds across the world today: what can a close and comparative exploration of crowds around the world tell us about the very substance of contemporary politics?
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Revolutionary Disappointment and Recalibration
PI: Adom Getachew, Daragh Grant, Ghenwa Hayek, Jennifer Pitts, David Scott, Lisa Wedeen
Using theoretical, historical, and multi-sited ethnographic approaches, this project considers questions of revolution, despair, political retrenchment, nostalgia, the politics of waiting, and temporality more generally.
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Past projects
| Date | Project Title | Principal Investigator(s) |
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| 2016–2024 | Conspiracy/Theory | Joseph P. Masco and Lisa Wedeen |
| 2011–2022 | Object Cultures Project | Bill Brown and Shannon Lee Dawdy |
| 2010-2021 | Worlding, Writing | Lauren Berlant |
| 2017–2019 | Materializing the Future | Bill Brown and Shannon Lee Dawdy |
| 2014-2019 | History, Social Theory, and Capitalism | Moishe Postone & William H. Sewell, Jr. |
| 2014–2016 | Neoliberalism + Empire | Lisa Wedeen |
| 2011–2014 | Climate Change | Dipesh Chakrabarty |
| 2012–2014 | Generational Change | Lisa Wedeen and Hussein Agrama |
| 2014 | Public, Life | William Mazzarella |