LC Santangelo
Student Fellow
LC Santangelo is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center, and an adjunct lecturer at Lehman College. Santangelo received an MPhil from the Graduate Center in 2010 and a BA in political science and history from Marist College. At the Graduate Center, Santangelo’s dissertation analyzes the relationship between the suffrage movement and America’s largest metropolis, New York City.
Participating Years
2012–2013
Uprisings: in History, in Process, in the Future
The last year has witnessed an extraordinary flowering of political and social protest across the globe. Each location of struggle, whether the revolutions sometimes called the “Arab Spring” or the vigorous demonstrations of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement, provides important lessons in how we understand social change in the current conjuncture.What is the longue durée of such struggle? How do uprisings reconfigure the social? How are they represented and is representation itself an uprising?