Gabriel Meier
Student Fellow
Gabriel Meier is a doctoral candidate in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center and an adjunct lecturer in Economics at John Jay College. His research focuses on the social form of circulation, its historical-geography in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, and critical theories of measurement, mobility, and epistemology. Gabriel has worked as an archivist, writer, editor, and radio host. He earned a BA in Political Studies from Pitzer College and an MA in Library and Information Science from University of Arizona.
Participating Years
2025–2026
Mobility: Transit and Transformation
Crises of mobility have become a key integer of social struggle in the world system. Whether one considers the explosion of different forms of movement or the production of immobility, in carcerality, wagelessness, enclosure, or via the securitization of borders, mobility and its discontents are central to radical activism across local and transnational communities.