Robbie Shilliam

Robbie Shilliam is a Professor of International Relations in the Political Science department @ Johns Hopkins University.

Books

Edited Volumes

See my Curriculum Vitae for a full list of publications

Selected Articles / Chapters

Blogs

What Max Weber can teach us about the Ramsay Centre: Racism and Disenchantment

Two principles are at stake in the debates over the Ramsay Centre: 1) that academia must be a space of impartial inquiry, one not swayed or influenced by economic or political interests, whether in the form of outside funders or inside “left-wingers”; 2) that academic study should not be dogmatic but critical and – as…

The Italy/Ethiopia Conflict and Anti-Colonial Anti-Fascism: In Lieu of a Book

Over the last seven years, I have published a number of pieces all of which draw out the historical and theoretical implications of the Italy/Ethiopia conflict (1935-41) and the anti-colonial anti-fascism that responded to it across the British Empire and beyond. I was going to write a book out of it. But I don’t think…

Fanon: from Martinque to Algeria via Ethiopia

  We can start with one of Frantz Fanon’s fellow Martinicans: Paulette Nardal.  She’s largely responsible for forcing the issue of Black consciousness onto the Parisian community of Black intellectuals and artists in the 1920s and 30s. Négritude is cultivated in her apartment on Sunday afternoons, where Black, white, Arab, Muslim and Christian perform art and…

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