Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Essex
Linsey McGoey is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Sociology at the University of Essex in the U.K. She has published widely on diverse research interests, from the political economy of ignorance to the rise of philanthrocapitalism. McGoey is co-editor (with Matthias Gross) of the International Routledge Handbook of Ignorance Studies (2015), and the author of No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy (Verso, 2015). She is on the editorial advisory boards of Economy and Society and Finance and Society. McGoey contributes frequently to publications geared at a general audience, including recent articles in The Guardian, Fortune, Jacobin, and The Times.