Stephen J. Collier is an Associate Professor at GPIA and has been teaching in the Program since 2003. He received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001, and held research and teaching positions at Columbia University before joining the New School. He has conducted research in Russia, Georgia, and the United States and published on a range of topics including post-socialism, neoliberalism, infrastructure, social welfare, and contemporary security. He is the author of Post-Soviet Social: Neoliberalism, Social Modernity, Biopolitics (Princeton, 2011), the co-editor (with Aihwa Ong) of Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics and Ethics as Anthropological Problems (Blackwell, 2004,) and the co-editor (with Andrew Lakoff) of Biosecurity Interventions (Columbia University Press, 2008). His articles and other writing have appeared in many journals, including Theory, Culture, and Society, Economy and Society, Environment and Planning D, and Post-Soviet Affairs. He is currently completing a book (with Andrew Lakoff) on the government of catastrophe in the United States after World War II.

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