Keith Rosenthal

Student Fellow

Keith Rosenthal is a PhD candidate in History at the CUNY Graduate Center and an adjunct lecturer in U.S. History at Hunter College. Keith’s research focuses on the history, politics, and theory of disability, capitalism, the working class, and social movements. Keith is the editor of the book, Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell (Haymarket Books, 2019). Keith is online at https://keithrosenthal.wordpress.com.

Participating Years

2026–2027

Radical Imagination: Temporalities and Geographies of Struggle

In a world of deepening crises, of socioeconomic inequities, of environmental collapse, of resurgent fascism and institutionalized authoritarianism, what is the place of radical imagination in creating more just worlds? While some think of the work of imagination as being outside of—at a distance to, or even in a different temporality than—everyday struggle, we want to shine a light on the work of radical practice as a form of imagination. We look to anticapitalist and antiracist organizing and thought, and the complex practices in time and place through which change is not only presented and represented but produced.