A Canadian historian specializing in modern Germany and international history, Slobodian has been an associate professor at Wellesley College since 2015. He studied history at Lewis & Clark College and received his Ph.D. from New York University in 2008. He is a historian focused on North-South policies, social movements, and the intellectual history of neoliberalism. In addition to his book Globalists. The End of Empires and the Birth of Neoliberalism (2018), he is also the author of Foreign Front: Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany (2012), editor of Comrades of Color: East Germany in the Color World War (2015) and co-editor (with Dieter Plehwe and Philip Mirowski) of Nine Lives of Neoliberalism. Slobodian has published more than twenty articles and chapters in prestigious history journals such as Journal of Global History, American Historical Review and Journal of Contemporary History. He has also written for the New York Times, New Statesman, The Baffler and Dissent. His research has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Volkswagen Foundation, and the Andrew Mellon Foundation. He is currently working on a book on far-right capitalism. As in his research, Slobodian's teaching to his students is characterized by situating histories of modern Europe in the history of the world at large.