When I get invited to present at conferences and give talks, I frequently have to provide a bio – here is a selection, in increasing order of self-congratulation, that conference organizers can choose from, as well as a photo (click for larger version).

Henry Farrell is a professor working on democracy and international affairs at Johns Hopkins University.

Henry Farrell is SNF Agora Institute Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and 2019 winner of the Friedrich Schiedel Prize for Politics and Technology. He works on a variety of topics, including democracy, the politics of the Internet and international and comparative political economy. He has written articles and book chapters as well as three books, The Political Economy of Trust: Interests, Institutions and Inter-Firm Cooperation, published by Cambridge University Press, and (with Abraham Newman) Of Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Fight over Freedom and Security, published by Princeton University Press, and Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (with Abraham Newman), forthcoming from Henry Holt (US) and Penguin (UK).

Henry Farrell is SNF Agora Institute Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and 2019 winner of the Friedrich Schiedel Prize for Politics and Technology. He has previously been a professor at George Washington University and the University of Toronto, a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, and a senior research fellow at the Max-Planck Project Group in Bonn, Germany. He works on a variety of topics, including democracy, the politics of the Internet and international and comparative political economy. His first book, The Political Economy of Trust: Interests, Institutions and Inter-Firm Cooperation, was published in 2009 by Cambridge University Press. His second (with Abraham Newman) Of Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Fight over Freedom and Security, was published in 2019 by Princeton University Press, and has been awarded the 2019 Chicago-Kent College of Law / Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize and the ISA-ICOMM Best Book Award. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (with Abraham Newman), is forthcoming from Henry Holt (US) and Penguin (UK). In addition he has authored or co-authored 38 academic articles, as well as an edited volume, several book chapters and numerous non-academic publications. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Henry Farrell is SNF Agora Institute Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and 2019 winner of the Friedrich Schiedel Prize for Politics and Technology. He has previously been a professor at George Washington University and the University of Toronto, a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, and a senior research fellow at the Max-Planck Project Group in Bonn, Germany. He works on a variety of topics, including democracy, the politics of the Internet and international and comparative political economy. His first book, The Political Economy of Trust: Interests, Institutions and Inter-Firm Cooperation, was published in 2008 by Cambridge University Press. His second (with Abraham Newman) Of Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Fight over Freedom and Security, was published in 2019 by Princeton University Press, and has been awarded the 2019 Chicago-Kent College of Law / Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize and the ISA-ICOMM Best Book Award. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (with Abraham Newman), is forthcoming from Henry Holt (US) and Penguin (UK). In addition he has authored or co-authored 34 academic articles, as well as an edited volume, and several book chapters for edited volumes.

He is a co-founder of the popular academic blog Crooked Timber, and from 2019-2022 was Editor-in-Chief of The Monkey Cage, a political science blog hosted at the Washington Post, which previously won the 2010 The Week award for Best Blog. He has written articles for publications including Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The Financial Times, Foreign Policy, Democracy, The American Prospect, The Washington Monthly, The Boston Review, The American Interest, Aeon, New Scientist, The Nation, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Times Higher Education, and the Australian Academic Supplement among others. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, an international correspondent for Stato e Mercato, co-chair of the Social Science Research Council’s Digital Culture initiative, and an affiliated scholar at Stanford University Law School’s Center for the Internet and Society.

Henry Farrell is SNF Agora Institute Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and 2019 winner of the Friedrich Schiedel Prize for Politics and Technology. He has previously been a professor at George Washington University and the University of Toronto, a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, and a senior research fellow at the Max-Planck Project Group in Bonn, Germany. He works on a variety of topics, including democracy, the politics of the Internet and international and comparative political economy. His first book, The Political Economy of Trust: Interests, Institutions and Inter-Firm Cooperation, was published in 2008 by Cambridge University Press. His second (with Abraham Newman) Of Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Fight over Freedom and Security, was published in 2019 by Princeton University Press, and has been awarded the 2019 Chicago-Kent College of Law / Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize and the ISA-ICOMM Best Book Award. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (with Abraham Newman), is forthcoming from Henry Holt (US) and Penguin (UK). In addition he has authored or co-authored 38 academic articles for journals including Nature, International Organization, International Security, World Politics, Comparative Political Studies and the Annual Review of Political Science, as as well as an edited volume, and several book chapters for edited volumes.

Professor Farrell is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, an international correspondent for Stato e Mercato, and an affiliated scholar at Stanford University Law School’s Center for the Internet and Society. He is a co-founder of the popular academic blog Crooked Timber, and from 2019-2022 was Editor-in-Chief of The Monkey Cage, a political science blog hosted at the Washington Post, which previously won the 2010 The Week award for Best Blog. He has written articles for general publications including Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The Financial Times, Foreign Policy, The National Interest, The American Prospect, The Washington Monthly, The Boston Review, The American Interest, Democracy, New Scientist, The Nation, Aeon, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Times Higher Education, and the Australian Academic Supplement among others. He was a minor hanger-on in the creation of the New Weird literary movement.