Dillon Wamsley

Bicentenary Research Fellow in Humanities in the Department of Politics at the University of Manchester

Fall 2026

• PECO 5501 – Theorizing Crisis in Political Economy: Historical and Contemporary Crises in Capitalism
• PECO 5503 – Labour, Labourism, and the History of Social Democracy

Dillon Wamsley is a Bicentenary Research Fellow in Humanities in the Department of Politics at the University of Manchester. Prior to this, he was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute. His research draws on critical political economy and state theory, focusing on the politics of macroeconomic governance, sovereign debt, and capitalist crisis.

His current research project examines the global political economy of public debt. It develops a theory of sovereignty through a comparative historical analysis of sovereign debt, finance, and state formation, focusing on how public debt structures the relationship between states and financial markets.

His research has appeared in leading journals including New Political Economy, Theory & Society, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Critical Sociology, and British Politics. He has a manuscript on the political economy of Anglo-American capitalism under review and is the author of a forthcoming book on the political economy of capitalist crises with Palgrave Macmillan.