Julian Reid is known for his research on the biopolitics of war, critique of liberalism, and seminal deconstruction of resilience. Educated in London (B.A., First Class Honours, 1996), Amsterdam (M.Phil. 1998) and Lancaster (Ph.D., 2004), he has taught International Politics and International Relations at the Universities of London (SOAS and King’s College), Sussex, and Lapland, where he has been the Professor of International Relations since 2010. He was Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor in Politics at the University of Bristol (UK) between 2013 and 2014 and Research Fellow in the Global Forum at Virginia Tech (USA) in 2017. In 2025 he is Research Fellow in the Kate Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) at the University of Heidelberg (Germany). His books are Biopolitics of the War on Terror (2006); The Liberal Way of War: Killing to Make Life Live (2009, coauthored with Michael Dillon); Resilient Life: The Art of Living Dangerously (2014, coauthored with Brad Evans); The Neoliberal Subject: Resilience, Adaptation and Vulnerability (2016, coauthored with David Chandler); Becoming Indigenous: Governing Imaginaries in the Anthropocene (2019, coauthored with David Chandler). He has edited collections on Postcollectivity: Situated Knowledge and Practice (2024, with Agniezska Jelewska and Michal Krawczak); The Biopolitics of Development (2013, with Sandro Mezzadra and Ranabir Samaddar); Deleuze & Fascism (2013, with Brad Evans). His research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Academy of Finland, and the Kone Foundation. His work has been translated into several languages including Korean, Spanish, Turkish, Portuguese, Slovenian, Hungarian, and Bulgarian.
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