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Directors

Miriam Ticktin, Director

Email: mticktin@gc.cuny.edu

Miriam Ticktin is Director of CPCP, and Professor of Anthropology at the CUNY (City University of New York) Graduate Center. She has held positions at the New School for Social Research, University of Michigan, and at Columbia University, and she has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City, and an invited visiting professor at the EHESS in Paris. She publishes widely on topics such as migration, borders, humanitarianism, and racial and gendered inequalities, and most recently, she has written about the idea of a decolonial feminist commons. She is the author of Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France (University of California Press, 2012), and co-editor of In the Name of Humanity: The Government of Threat and Care (Duke University Press, 2010). Her latest book, Against Innocence: Undoing and Remaking the World, is forthcoming with University of Chicago Press. She is currently working on her next book, Containment and Commoning: From Bordered Worlds to Collective Life. Ticktin writes in public venues such as Truthout, LARB and Open Democracy, and organizes with migrant social justice groups in the US and in France.

 

Peter Hitchcock, Associate DirectorPeter Hitchcock

Email: phitchcock@gc.cuny.edu

Peter Hitchcock is Professor of English at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is also on the faculties of Women’s Studies and Film Studies at the GC. His books include Dialogics of the Oppressed (Minnesota, 1992), Oscillate Wildly: Space, Body, and Spirit of Millennial Materialism (Minnesota, 1999), Imaginary States: Studies in Cultural Transnationalism (Illinois, 2003), The Long Space: Transnationalism and Postcolonial Form (Stanford, 2009), The New Public Intellectual: Politics, Theory, and the Public Sphere (Palgrave, 2016; coedited with Jeffrey R. Di Leo), Labor in Culture, or, Worker of the World(s) (Palgrave, 2017), The Debt Age (Routledge, 2018; coedited with Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Sophia McClennen), and Biotheory (Routledge, 2020; coedited with Jeffrey R. Di Leo). Forthcoming books include Seriality and Social Change (Seagull, 2025) and an edited collection, Parasitical Logic in Culture and Society (Bloomsbury, 2025). Hitchcock’s research and teaching focus on anticapitalism, postcolonial and decolonial critique, the politics of gender and sexuality, and aesthetics. Recent articles include: “Living the City: On Samuel R. Delany’s Times Square Red, Times Square Blue” for WSQ; “Countering Encounters: Theorizing the Scale of Globality” for a volume on theory as world literature; “Decolonizing Aesthetics: Bakhtin, Modernism, and Anti-Colonial Poetics” for Understanding Bakhtin, Understanding Modernism; “Inertia Creeps” for a volume on left theory and the alt-right; “Paroxysm Politics” for a book on Black Mirror; and “Auguries of Ethics” for a volume on contemporary architectural theory.

 

David Harvey, Director of Researchdharveysun

Email: dharvey@gc.cuny.edu

David Harvey is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the City University of New York (CUNY) and author of various books, articles, and lectures. His most recent books are A Companion to Marx’s Grundrisse (Verso, 2023) and The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles (Pluto Press, 2020). He is the author of Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism (Profile Books, 2014), one of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2011, The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism (Oxford University Press, 2010). Other books include A Companion to Marx’s Capital, Limits to Capital, and Social Justice and the City. Professor Harvey has been teaching Karl Marx’s Capital for nearly 40 years. His lectures on Marx’s Volumes I and II are available for download (free) on his website. He was director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics from 2008–2014. Follow him on Twitter

 

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Principal Advisor and Former DirectorRuth Wilson Gilmore

Email: rgilmore@gc.cuny.edu

Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, American Studies, and Africana Studies at the City University of New York Graduate Center. She was Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics from 2014 to 2024. Co-founder of many grassroots organizations, including California Prison Moratorium Project, Critical Resistance, and Central California Environmental Justice Network, Gilmore is author of Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation (Verso 2022), and Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (University of California Press 2007). Other recent publications include an Introduction to V.I. Lenin Imperialism and the National Question (Verso 2024), as well as forewords to Bobby M. Wilson’s Birmingham classic America’s Johannesburg, (UGA Press 2019), and to Cedric J. Robinson: On Racial Capitalism, Black Internationalism, and Cultures of Resistance (ed. HLT Quan, Pluto Press 2019). She and Paul Gilroy edited Stuart Hall: Selected Writings on Race and Difference (Duke 2021). The Antipode documentary Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore features her internationalist work. Honors include the Association of American Geographers Lifetime Achievement Award (2020), the 2020 Lannan Foundation Lifetime Cultural Freedom Prize (with Mike Davis and Angela Y. Davis), and a 2022 Marguerite Casey Freedom Scholar Prize. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

 

Mary N. Taylor

Email: mtaylor2@gc.cuny.edu

Mary N. Taylor is the Assistant Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and a founding member of the LeftEast collective. Working at the intersection of anthropology, urbanism, and dialogical art, her praxis investigates sites, techniques, and politics of civic cultivation, the production of political personhood, the ethics and aesthetics of nationalism/cultural differentiation, and the history of communist experiment. Dr. Taylor’s work has appeared in numerous journals. She co-edited Co-revolutionary Praxis: Accompaniment as a Strategy for Working Together (Aukland: St. Paul St. Gallery, 2015), and The Commonist Horizon: Futures Beyond Capitalist Urbanization (Common Notions, 2023). Her historical ethnography Movement of the People: Folk Dance, Populism, and Citizenship in Hungary (2021Indiana University Press), explores the tension between peoples’ movements and populism in Hungary through the lens of a folk revival movement. She is currently working on a dialogical film project about liberation movement lives in the former socialist block.

 

Postdoctoral Fellow

Zandi Sherman Zandi Sherman

Email: zandi.sherman@gmail.com

Zandi Sherman is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. She has a PhD in Women’s and Gender Studies from Rutgers University and a Masters Degree in Global Studies jointly awarded by the Universities of Cape Town and Freiburg. Her research, writing, and activism focus on racial capitalism and the relation between material infrastructures and colonial logics of extraction and accumulation. She has published work on the South African diamond industry and how its technologies of extraction were both dependent on and productive of race. Zandi is a co-founding member of Sociable Weavers, a queer African collective nurturing alternatives to capitalism through socio-ecological regeneration. The collective is currently developing a curriculum for a year-long school focused on preserving African traditions of radical interdependence and crafting new refusals of capitalism’s modes of relation.

 

Faculty Fellows

Ángeles Donoso Macaya

Email: adonosomacaya@bmcc.cuny.edu​

Ángeles Donoso Macaya is a feminist scholar and writer from Santiago, Chile, based in New York. She is Professor of Latin American Visual Cultures in the Ph.D. Program in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures at The CUNY Graduate Center, and Professor of Spanish at BMCC. Her research and writing spans Latin American and Caribbean photography theory and history, counter-archival production, human rights activism, documentary film, (trans)feminisms in the Southern Cone, and public humanities scholarship. She is the author of The Insubordination of Photography (U Florida Press 2020; 2023)/ La insubordinación de la fotografía (Metales 2021); of the autobiographical essay Lanallwe (Tusquets 2023); and co-author, along with photographer Paz Errázuriz, of archivo imperfecto (Metales Pesados 2023).

 

Tao Leigh Goffe

Email: tg401@hunter.cuny.edu

Tao Leigh Goffe is Associate Professor of literary theory and cultural history with a focus on the environmental humanities and geology at Hunter College, City University of New York. She joined the department of Department of Africana Studies after over a decade of research and teaching on Black feminist engagements with Indigeneity and Asian diasporic racial formations. This work builds on a long-standing research interest in the intersection of art, climate, race, and digital technologies. It is the basis of the Dark Laboratory, which she founded and leads as the Executive Director. Dr. Goffe graduated with an undergraduate degree in English literature at Princeton University before earning a PhD at Yale University. Dr. Goffe’s forthcoming book Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, The Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis [Doubleday, Hamish Hamilton (Penguin Books UK)], explores how 1492 was the genesis of the climate crisis. She serves on the Advisory Committee of the Boys Club of New York.

 

Christopher Loperena

Email: cloperena@gc.cuny.edu

Christopher Loperena is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His research examines Indigenous and Black territorial struggles, land, environmental loss, extractivism, and the socio-spatial politics of economic development. He has also published on anthropological witnessing and cultural expertise. His book, The Ends of Paradise: Race, Extraction, and the Struggle for Black Life in Honduras, was published by Stanford University Press in 2022. Loperena’s work has appeared in journals such as American AnthropologistAmerican QuarterlyCultural AnthropologyCurrent AnthropologyGeoforum, and the Journal of Sustainable Tourism. In addition to his scholarship, he has provided expert testimony at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and in support of asylum claimants from Central America. In 2022, he was awarded a Mellon New Directions Fellowship to begin a project on race, loss, and climate vulnerability in coastal regions of Puerto Rico.

 

Alex A. Moulton

Email: alex.moulton18@hunter.cuny.edu

Alex Moulton is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Hunter College and Faculty in the Ph.D. Program in Earth and Environmental Science at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His research is concerned with Black geographies and ecologies, agrarian systems, socio-ecological justice, and political ecology of climate change. His work has been published in journals such as ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, Caribbean Geography, Geography Compass, Sociology Compass, Environmental Humanities, EPD: Society and Space, EPE: Nature and Society, and Journal of Political Ecology. Present projects include the Antipode Foundation funded ‘Black Geographers on Film—A digital archive of Black Geography’, and a co-edited volume on The Futurities of Climate Change (under contract with Lexington Books).

 

Amber Musser

Email: amusser@gc.cuny.edu

Amber Jamilla Musser is Professor of English and Africana studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (NYU Press 2014), Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance (NYU Press 2018), and Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined (Duke University Press 2024). Her collaborative projects include the co-edited journal issues “Care and Its Complexities” for signs and “Queer Form” for ASAP Journal, co-editing the series Elements in Feminism and Critical Theory for Cambridge University Press, co-editing Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies, and co-hosting its accompanying Feminist Keywords Podcast. She was President of ASAP (Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present) from 2022–2023, when she co-chaired ASAP-14: Arts of Fugitivity in Seattle; and she is currently co-chairing ASAP-15: Not a Luxury in New York City in October 2024. She is also Co-Editor of Social Text.

 

Nantina Vgontzas Nantina Vgontzas

Email: nantina.vgontzas@slu.cuny.edu

Nantina Vgontzas is Assistant Professor of Labor Studies at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. They study the prospects for labor internationalism in a warming world. Presently, their research is focused on the rapidly expanding logistics sector. Not only is this sector a key node in the global commodity circulation, but as ecommerce firms increasingly orient their delivery operations around major metropolitan markets, logistics is positioned to reshape social and political alliances in global cities. Combining engaged ethnography with political economy, Dr. Vgontzas examines how the efforts of warehouse workers to improve their working conditions intersect with community efforts to mitigate the environmental harms of warehouse expansion. Their work has been published in New Global StudiesLabor Studies JournalBoston ReviewThe Nation, and other outlets. At CPCP, they will be working on their book project about transnational efforts to democratize and decarbonize Amazon. Challenging the commonly perceived inevitability of Amazon’s growth, their project shows how various intersections between organizing and policy efforts against Amazon point to a counterhegemonic vision of abolishing carbon and capital on the global shopfloor.

 

Dissertation Fellows

Coline Chevrin

Email: cchevrin@gradcenter.cuny.edu

Coline Chevrin is sixth-year Ph.D. student in Geography at the department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Graduate Center.  After a Master’s Degree in Territorial Policies for Sustainable Development, Coline specialized in territorial and development studies. She was an assistant professor and researcher in Argentina at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario from 2013 to 2017. Her research focuses on the impact of the soybean extractivist model on the restructuring of the city of Rosario, Argentina. She analyzes how the extractive frontier has materialized in the different spaces of the city, how communities organize to resist enclosure and displacement and to secure space. She pays specific attention to the different ways solidarity emerges from those processes. She is particularly interested in Latin American situated knowledge, decolonial praxis, and Global South and feminist geographies. Coline has been experimenting visualizing her research through documentary photography and alternative methods. She is a 2024 Fulbright Hays recipient.

 

Patrick DeDauw

Email: pdedauw@gradcenter.cuny.edu

Patrick DeDauw is a doctoral candidate in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center. He has worked as a union organizer and in curriculum design and training for power research and strategic analysis for unions and other social-movement organizations. His dissertation research has tracked carceral expansion and welfare-state restructuring during moments of fiscal crisis and regional economic turbulence, with a focus on developments in northern Alberta since the 1980s. His newest research focuses on methods of analysis and strategy used by labor-community coalitions to plan campaigns to win class-wide demands. Patrick holds an MA in Political Economy and Sociology from Freie Universität–Berlin and a BA in Cultural Studies from McGill University, and he has taught at Queens College and FU–Berlin. His writing has appeared in Jacobin, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Social Justice, and edited volumes Investigating Logistics, Contours of the Illiberal State, and Maritime Mobilities. He has also worked as a translator and editor for academic publications and projects in popular education.

 

Valerie Fryer-Davis Valerie Fryer-Davis

Email: vfryerdavis@gradcenter.cuny.edu

Valerie Fryer-Davis (she/her) is a PhD Candidate in English at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Her specialty is in decolonial, trans, and Black literature and theory, with an emphasis on Subsaharan Africa and the Caribbean. She has published in Memory Studies on the renegotiation of memorialization after the Rwandan Genocide and has also recently published a digest on queer pedagogy for the Hostos WAC Reader. She has work forthcoming in an edited collection on Nigerian playwright Tess Onwueme, published by Africa World Press, that values silence and hope in the fight against environmental colonialism in the Niger Delta region. Her current research for her dissertation focuses on how trans and Black love and rage can redress queer and racial violence since the 1960s, with a specific focus on Africana literature and politics.

 

jah elyse sayersjah elyse sayers

Email: jsayers@gradcenter.cuny.edu 

jah elyse sayers (they/them) directs their creative energy toward liberatory placemaking through research, writing, artmaking, teaching, and building. They are a PhD candidate in Environmental Psychology, a sub-area of Earth and Environmental Sciences at The Graduate Center, CUNY.

 

holden taylorholden taylor

Email: holden.taylor@baruch.cuny.edu

holden taylor is a tenant unionist, an adjunct professor at Baruch College, a PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center writing on tenancy and housing financialization, an organizer with the Marxist Unity Group, and an activist with CUNY on Strike, a rank-and-file formation within CUNY’s Professional Staff Congress. They write mostly about the self-organization of working-class tenants and the political economy from which such organization is born, both historical and contemporary. This is an interest in the political potency of working-class people at the site of their homes, with their neighbors, in their community, and in opposition to the dispossessory auspices of real estate, landlords, and their capital enmeshments. They are a founder of the Brooklyn Eviction Defense Tenant Union, a borough-wide, independent organization of tenants cultivating class power building by building and block by block.

 

Emine Büşra Unluonen

Email: eunluonen@gradcenter.cuny.edu

Büşra Unluonen is a Ph.D. candidate in Cultural Anthropology and the Art & Collaborative Inquiry Fellow at the James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center. Her dissertation research delves into the intersections of cultural heritage, the (built-)environment, and good life imaginaries in Türkiye’s rural Black Sea region. Her work, tentatively titled “Irreverent Politics: Humor, Blue Tarp Aesthetic, and Arcadian Living in Türkiye,” posits irreverence as an ethico-political stance. This stance characterizes a unique political culture in Türkiye, enabling individuals and communities to assert their right to the places they inhabit. She holds a BA in Social and Political Sciences from Sabancı University and an MA in International Relations from Koç University, both in İstanbul, Türkiye.

 

 

Visiting Scholars

Giusepe Filocomo Giusepe Filocomo

Email: giusepefilocomo@usp.br

Giusepe Filocomo is a visiting scholar at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the City University of New York and a researcher at the Housing and Human Settlements Laboratory at the University of São Paulo, as well as the Institute of Science and Technology for Housing and City Production in Brazil. His current research focuses on urban housing provision in São Paulo and New York. Through this work, Filocomo engages with urban, sociological, and historical studies, considering both the national context and local specifics to understand the production of urban space. He is also a doctoral candidate at the University of São Paulo, where he conducts research on housing provision, urban development, and housing and urban policies. Additionally, he has served as a specialized consultant for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in Brazil.

 

Thauany Freire

Email: thauany.freire@usp.br

Thauany Freire is a geographer and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. Currently, she is a visiting scholar at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, conducting research funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). Her research delves into how racial capitalism has transformed the Haitian population into a migrant workforce, which nowadays navigates experiences oscillating between hyper-mobility and immobility. Her Ph.D. research in São Paulo (FAPESP- 20/06119-3) focuses on how Haitian immigrants, residing in the outskirts of the city, address their housing needs amidst the continuous dynamics of the real estate market in the neighborhood. She also investigates how the daily practices and struggles of Haitian immigrants in the city create spaces that embody local agency, aimed at confronting the racial constraints and urban violences. She holds a master’s degree in Human Geography (2018) from the University of São Paulo, in which she explored the socio-spatial consequences of housing policies implemented in São Paulo’s inner city throughout the 2000s.

 

Remi Joseph-Salisbury Remi Joseph-Salisbury

Email: remi.joseph-salisbury@manchester.ac.uk

Remi Joseph-Salisbury is a Reader in Sociology at the University of Manchester, specializing in racisms and antiracisms, particularly in education and policing. He is currently working on a Leverhulme-funded project exploring the impact of police presence in schools.Remi co-authored Anti-Racist Scholar-Activism (Manchester UP 2021, open access), which won a 2023 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award. He also co-edited The Fire Now: Anti-Racism in Times of Explicit Racial Violence (Zed Books 2018) and authored Black Mixed-Race Men (Emerald Publishing 2018), which received the Philip Abram Prize for best first book in Sociology. In addition, Remi recently led the first study on the impact of security services on students in British universities, culminating in the publication of Whose Campus, Whose Security?. Prior to this, he was lead author on a seminal report on Race and Ethnicity in British Sociology for the British Sociological AssociationHis recent work addresses topics such as police in schools, campus securitization, pandemic policing, police abolition, and racism in British education. Remi is a steering group member of the Northern Police Monitoring Project, an abolitionist group based in Greater Manchester, and the No Police in Schools campaign. He is also a member of the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE).

 

FTC Manning

Email: ftc.manning37@gmail.com

FTC Manning is a geographer by way of philosophy and political economy, working on ground rent, theories of the state, and the political economy of land dispossession / the land dispossession at the heart of political economy. They are the Treasurer of the board of the San Francisco Community Land Trust and a participant in local organizing groups fighting for homes, resources, and mutual aid with housed and houseless neighbors and sex workers. Other research foci include ontologies of law, colonial land transfer, racialization in the longue-durée, psychoanalysis, quantum epistemology, and trauma-informed pedagogy. You can find their work at https://opencuny.org/ftcmanning/.

 

Maria Luisa Mendonça

Maria Luisa Mendonça is a research scholar at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). She holds a PhD in Human Geography from the University of São Paulo (USP). Her research includes history and political economy of agriculture in Brazil and internationally. Her recent book Political Economy of Agribusiness (Fernwood Publishing, Halifax, 2023) demonstrates the central role of food systems in international relations as a result of a dialectical movement of economic crisis and expansion in connection with trade, financial markets, environmental justice, and transnational activism. Her research anticipated a trend in financial capital to “migrate” to farmland markets in the Global South, especially after the crisis in the United States’ real estate market in 2008. She has taught international political economy at University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and at the center for advanced research Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV). Mendonça is a co-founder of the World Social Forum and co-director of Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos (Network for Social Justice and Human Rights – www.social.org.br). She is co-editor of the book Human Rights in Brazil, published annually since 2000. Her experience includes documentary filmmaking and investigative journalism, and she has served in expert meetings on the Right to Food at the United Nations.

 

Fania NoëlFania Noël

Email: noelfania@newschool.edu

Fania Noël is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from The New School for Social Research in May 2024, with a concentration in Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her research and teaching interests span Political Sociology, Social Theory, and Critical Media Studies, particularly focusing on political movements, Global Black Studies, and Critical Theory. Her work, deeply shaped by her experience as an Afrofeminist organizer and writer, investigates the legitimacy battles surrounding political identity production and mobilization. Her scholarship critically examines these dynamics within activist spaces, the intersection between academia and activism, and cultural production. In addition to her academic contributions, Fania Noël is an active public scholar, publishing extensively in various journals and media outlets. website: vudelabas.com

 

Bruno Nzinga RibeiroBruno Nzinga Ribeiro

Email: brunonzingaribeiro@gmail.com

Bruno is an activist in LGBTQIANPN+ and black movements, a Ph.D. candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), and currently a Visiting Scholar at the City University of New York (CUNY). He earned his BA in Social Sciences and a master’s degree in Social Anthropology from Unicamp. His research from 2018 to 2021, funded by FAPESP, investigated the Black LGBT scene in São Paulo. At New York University, he further explored the transnational Black LGBTQ scene, focusing on connections between São Paulo and New York City. Currently, at the CPCP, Bruno is developing research on difference, abandonment, and precarity in the (im)mobilities of Brazilian LGBT migrants living in New York City (FAPESP grant 21/14686-8), under the supervision of Professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore. His research interests include sexual and gender diversity, intersectionality, performance studies, black queer studies, and social movements. Bruno’s master’s dissertation earned an honorable mention in the X Anthropology and Human Rights Award from the Brazilian Association of Anthropology. His recent publications include articles in journals such as Refuge: Canada’s Journal on RefugeesEnvironment and Planning C: Politics and SpaceCadernos de Campo: USP, and Áskesis: UFSCAR.

 

Conor Tomás ReedConor Tomás Reed

Email: ConorTomasReed@gmail.com 

Conor “Coco” Tomás Reed (all pronouns) is a Puerto Rican~Irish, gender-fluid scholar-organizer of radical cultural and educational movements in the Americas and the Caribbean. Coco is the author of New York Liberation School: Study and Movement for the People’s University(Common Notions, 2023). At the CUNY Graduate Center, they are a 2023–25 Visiting Scholar at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, and are on the Board of Directors for CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies. Coco is co-developing the quadrilingual anthology Black Feminist Studies in the Americas and the Caribbean (Malpaís Ediciones), and is a contributing editor with LÁPIZ Journal and Lost & Found:The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative. They have been immersed in almost two decades of struggles at the City University of New York and in New York City around transforming education and public space, anti-imperialism, police and prison abolition, solidarity with Palestine and Puerto Rico, reproductive rights, housing justice, and beyond.

 

Tracy RosenthalTracy Rosenthal

Email: tracyjrosenthal@gmail.com

Tracy Rosenthal is a co-founder of the L.A. Tenants Union, a frequent contributor to The New Republic, and the author, with Leonardo Vilchis, of Abolish Rent, published by Haymarket (2024). They serve on the advisory board of “Housing the Third Reconstruction” at UCLA’s Institute on Inequality and Democracy and won an Antipode Films grant for a forthcoming collaborative short. They are now on rent strike in New York City.

 

Past Fellows