Ryan Allen is an Assistant Instructional Professor in the Social Sciences Division at the University of Chicago.
He received a doctorate in modern European history from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2021. He came to UChicago from the University of Illinois, where he taught courses on modern European social thought, fiction and historical imagination, and decolonization. Before this, he began his collegiate teaching career in the history and religious studies departments at California State University, Los Angeles.
He works in the field of modern European intellectual history. His book, Adventures in the Archaic: Primitivism, Degrowth, and the French Social Sciences, 1945–1975, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in January 2026. He has published in the journals Modern Intellectual History and History of Psychiatry on a range of subjects, including revolutionary romanticism and ethnopsychiatry.
Personal website: https://www.rl-allen.com