Blog Posts

I haven't posted anything in a little while, in part because I've been working on a few proposals for academic panels and fellowships as well as revising a chapter for ...

I’m taking a seminar on Public Humanities to inform my own public history work, particularly my approach to oral history projects and public events. For the first session, one of ...

Lenin says that “without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.” Taking this lesson seriously, I developed this introductory syllabus on revolutionary Marxist theory for Ithaca DSA’s Marxist Reading ...

I was based at the Brooklyn Interference Archive for Fall 2021 conducting dissertation research and interviews with support from Cornell's Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. During this time, ...

One of my favorite recent albums is Bambu’s EP Sharpest Tool in the Shed. Released in October 2020, it is a product of coronavirus and the George Floyd Rebellion. It ...

There was a lot of defensiveness around, ‘well I don’t participate in the patriarchy, I’m an anarchist, and I don’t believe in that.’ As women organized their own day of ...

Anarchist women formed the “Obnoxious Wimmin’s Network” in the late 1980s in order to build the anarcha-feminist movement and fight against male dominance in the radical scene. In 1989, they ...

Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite! Otto von Bismarck (1872, reflecting on the split in the First International) What is ...

In 1989, as the Berlin Wall fell and Francis Fukuyama proclaimed the “end of history,” the small college town of Ithaca, New York did something remarkable: it elected an openly ...

I recently organized an online panel at the Boston Anarchist Bookfair on November 14th (2021), which was recorded and uploaded to Youtube. My own talk, which begins around 41:20, is ...

Noel Ignatiev used to say that the biggest impediment to revolution in the United States is that most white workers identify more with their race than with their class. Thus, ...

Here is my general read of the current situation with the Democrats trying to pass Biden’s spending bill, framed within a broader conflict between different sectors of capital: The Republicans ...

The Vermont Family was a roving band of anarcho-punks that helped build the American anarchist movement in the 1980s. They were a key element of the connective tissue that linked ...

I'm working on a new piece that will become the first chapter of my dissertation on American anarchism in the late 20th century. I will share more in the future, ...