Julian Go is Professor of Sociology and Interim Chair of the  Sociology Department (2024-2025) at the University of Chicago where he is also a Faculty Affiliate in the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture, The Committee on International Relations, and Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture. He also a Fellow of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory.

Julian did his postdoctoral work as an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy of International and Area Studies. He has taught at Boston University, the University of Illinois, and has been a visiting Professor/Scholar at Harvard University, Cambridge University, the London School of Economics, Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Université Paris-Dauphine, the University of Lucerne in Switzerland, the Havens Center at the University of Wisconsin, and the Third World Studies Center, University of Philippines.

His research and writing has been translated into multiple languages, including French, German, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese and Russian. His publications have won prizes and recognition from the American Sociological Association, the Eastern Sociological Society, the American Political Science Association, and the International Studies Association, and the Manila Critics Circle among other institutions. He received the Lewis A. Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda Setting in Sociology given by the American Sociological Association in 2018.

His work has been featured in the popular press, including The New Yorker magazine, Foreign Affairs, and various podcasts. He has also made appearances in documentary films, including most recently the documentary about policing titled Power featured on Netflix & directed by Academy Award nominee Yance Ford.

Julian’s professional editorial roles include editing Political Power and Social Theory, serving as former Book Review Editor of the American Journal of Sociology and on the editorial boards of several journals including, past or present, the American Journal of Sociology, the British Journal of Sociology, Sociological Theory, Comparative Studies in Society and History, the American Journal of Cultural Sociology, Social Science History and the Sociology of Race & Ethnicity. He also serves on the editorial boards of several university press series.

Julian has acted as President of the Social Science History Association. He is also  a member of The Immanuel Wallerstein Chair of the Center for Advanced Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences, National University of Córdoba, Argentina, and the Institut für Sozialforschung, Frankfurt am Main (IfS-UNC).  His multiple professional roles also include serving as Chair of the Global & Transnational Sociology Section and the Comparative Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.