Stephen Cassidy Jones

Student Fellow

Stephen Cassidy Jones is a doctoral candidate in Geography at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. His dissertation project focuses on race, rebellion, and counterinsurgency in California’s super-maximum-security prisons, 1973 – 2013




Participating Years


2022–2023

Revolutionary Arts

Wary of making politics an aesthetic in disguise, radical theory and practice have nevertheless embraced all kinds of artistic provocations and traditions in every form and genre. At the same time, the possibility for fundamental change demands a range of interpretive encounters that might elicit meanings for people whom Julius Scott, writing about a different time, described as “disenchanted people casting about for new options.”