William A. Callahan is an Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
(OUP, 2020) is the first book-length analysis of visuality, multisensory politics, and IR, and it won the Best Book Award 2022 from the section of the International Studies Association. Sensible Politics was also shortlisted for the Susan Strange Best Book Award 2021 of the British International Studies Association. Read the .
Callahan is part of the research project, which is funded by the British Academy (2023-26). He is working on a book-length project that explores how Chinese people see the world that has produced the following publications:
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“China's Global Strategy as Science Fiction” (2023)
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Callahan also makes documentary films: (2020) was published in the Journal of Narrative Politics in Spring 2020, and in The Diplomat in April 2020. (For his other films, see .)
In 2019-20, Callahan was nominated for an “Innovation in Teaching” award for his “Visual International Politics” course (IR318), which integrates visual analysis and creative filmmaking.
Read Professor William A. Callahan's CV