Go, J.

Julian Go is Professor of Sociology at Boston University (PhD University of Chica-go). He has been an Academy Scholar at the Academy for International and Area Stud-ies of Harvard University, a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, and the Third World Studies Center at the University of the Philippines, and Chair (2012–13) of the Com-parative-Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. He is also the editor of the journal Political Power and Social Theory. His work includes American Empire and the Politics of Meaning: Elite Political Cultures in the Philip-pines and Puerto Rico under US Colonialism (Duke University Press), which won the Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book from the Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association and Patterns of Empire: the British and American Empires, 1688 to Present (Cambridge University Press, 2011), which won the prize for Best Book in Global & Transnational Sociology from the American Sociological Association, the American Political Science Association's J. David Greenstone Book Award for the Best Book in Politics and History in 2010 and 2011, the 2013 Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations from the Interna-tional Studies Association, and was one of Choice's ‘Outstanding Academic Titles’ in 2012.