Current Distinguished Visiting Professor
Timothy Mitchell
Affiliation
Social Science
Field of Study
Political Theory, Middle Eastern Studies
Home Institution
Columbia University
Website
Timothy Mitchell's interests include the politics of energy and the history of economic ideas. He is currently studying the two-hundred-year history of mechanisms for extracting income from the future—a future we inhabit precariously today. At IAS, he co-leads the School of Social Science theme seminar on Climate Crisis Politics.
Dates at IAS
Distinguished Visiting Professor
School of Social Science
– current
Degrees
Princeton University
Ph.D.
1984
Appointments
Columbia University
2008
William B. Ransford Professor of Middle Eastern Studies