13 Facts About Jodi Dean

Jodi Dean was born on 1962 and is an American political theorist and professor in the Political Science department at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in New York state.

Jodi Dean held the Donald R Harter '39 Professorship of the Humanities and Social Sciences from 2013 to 2018.

Jodi Dean is the author and editor of thirteen books, including Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging.

In 1993, Jodi Dean joined the faculty of Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Jodi Dean has taught courses on feminist theory, political theory, critical studies, and communism.

Jodi Dean is the Erasmus Professor in Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Jodi Dean was formerly a co-editor of the journal Theory and Event.

Jodi Dean has additionally held fellowships at Birkbeck, Cardiff University, Cornell University, McGill University, and the Institute for Human Sciences.

Jodi Dean is a member of the American Political Science Association, the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, and the Law and Society Association.

Jodi Dean says that capitalists, conservatives, liberals, and social democrats all agree that 20th-century communist regimes were unqualified failures, thereby limiting the scope of discussion around political alternatives to liberal democracy and free markets, a fusion of which constitutes Dean's conception of neoliberalism.

Jodi Dean asserts that when people think of capitalism they do not consider what she believes are its worst results because the history of capitalism is viewed as dynamic and nuanced.

Second, Jodi Dean asserts that the seventy-year history of the Soviet Union is condensed to the twenty-six years of Joseph Stalin's rule.

Lastly, Jodi Dean contends that the association of communism with Stalinism and authoritarianism is used to dismiss the possibility of communism working in practice by implying that any challenge to the political status quo will inevitably result in purges and violence.