Gopal Balakrishnan


Gopal Balakrishnan was a professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, working on political thought, intellectual history, and critical theory.
Balakrishnan studied European intellectual history and historical sociology at UCLA during the 1990s with Perry Anderson, Robert Brenner, Rogers Brubaker, and Michael Mann.
Prior to moving to Santa Cruz, he was an assistant professor at the University of Chicago.
In 2017, a number of people published allegations that Balakrishnan had committed sexual assault on multiple occasions. UC Santa Cruz launched an investigation in 2017 that was extended in May 2018. In October 2018, Balakrishnan remained on paid administrative leave. He was subsequently dropped as a member of the editorial board of the New Left Review.. In September 2019, he was fired from his position at UCSC over his actions of sexual misconduct, becoming the first tenured faculty member to be fired at UCSC.

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