Lucien Baskin

Student Fellow

Lucien Baskin is a doctoral student in Urban Education at the Grad Center researching abolition, social movements, and the university. Their dissertation focuses on histories of solidarity and organizing at CUNY. Lucien’s writing has been published in outlets such as Truthout, Society & Space, and Mondoweiss. They have guest edited issues of Theory, Research, and Action in Urban Education and The Abusable Past and are a member of the editorial collective of Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture. Currently, they serve as co-chair of the American Studies Association Critical Prison Studies Caucus, are an inaugural Freedom and Justice Institute fellow at Scholars for Social Justice, and work as a media and publicity fellow at Conversations in Black Freedom Studies at the Schomburg Center. They organize with The Public Library Action Network, Union of Pinnacle Tenants, and Graduate Center for Palestine and are a (strike-ready!) rank-and-file member of the PSC.

Connected Events

Student Movements and Social Justice: Histories and Futures

March 10, 2026

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.