About

Dr. Kennedy is the author of Diggers, Levellers, and Agrarian Capitalism: Radical Political Thought in Seventeenth Century England (2008), a study that looks at the emergence of grassroots movements in opposition to the development of agrarian capitalism in early modern England. His current research examines the politics of labor market reform in the context of the Eurozone crisis in order to assess whether or not the Eurozone crisis has accelerated the decentralization and neo-liberalization of collective bargaining regimes in Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain. He is also interested in researching the rise of anti-austerity movements and radical democratic challenges to the embedded neo-liberalism of the European Union, with emphasis on the countries of Southern Europe:  Syriza in Greece, the 5 Star Movement in Italy, Podemos in Spain and Livre in Portugal. He regularly blogs on the Eurozone Crisis at his blog, Parchment in the Fire.

He currently teaches courses in Culture, Capitalism and Globalization; Political Economy; and Development and Social Change in Europe at the University of Oregon. Prior to joining the University of Oregon, Dr. Kennedy held an academic post in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University in the United Kingdom, where he taught politics and the history of political thought and served as Co-Director for the Centre for the History of Political Thought.  He has also held academic posts at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland, the Middle East Technical University in Northern Cyprus, and York University and the University of Saskatchewan in Canada.