Lars Cornelissen

Lars Cornelissen is Lecturer in Politics at Manchester Metropolitan University.
He is also the Academic Coordinator for the Independent Social Research Foundation and is the author of Neoliberalism and Race (2025).
Dr Cornelissen holds a PhD in the Humanities and his research is on the intellectual history of neoliberalism. He writes on neoliberalism, critical theory, and intellectual history.
Other recent publications include A Neutral Toolkit? For a Fundamental Critique of Constructive Alignment (with Lucy Newby, in Teaching in Higher Education, 2025), Post-War Ordoliberalism, Race and the Politics of Development (in Thomas Biebricher et al. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Ordoliberalism, Oxford University Press, 2022) and Neoliberal Imperialism (in Politics, 2023).