William Walters

William Walters is a Professor at Carleton University, with a cross-appointment in the Department of Political Science and the Department of Sociology/Anthropology. He was trained as a chemist (BSc, Imperial College, Univ. of London) before switching into politics (MA, CUNY Graduate Sch.; PhD York Univ., Toronto). He has published widely in the areas of citizenship studies, the political sociology of states and international government, the geopolitics of borders and migration, and minor theories of political power and contestation.

His major publications include the book Unemployment and Government: Genealogies of the Social [CUP 2000], a co-authored volume (with J.H. Haahr) Governing Europe [Routledge 2005], and the co-edited collection (with W. Larner) Global Governmentality [Routledge 2004]. Most recently he published Governmentality: Critical Encounters [Routledge 2012].