Samantha Majic
Faculty Fellow
Samantha Majic completed her PhD in 2009 at Cornell University and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at John Jay College. Using multi-method qualitative research about sex workers’ political-organizational activities in the San Francisco Bay Area, she explores broader questions of how political activists balance revolutionary and reformist tendencies when they partner with state agencies and engage in nonprofit health and social service provision. She has contributed to books including Out of the Shadows: Woman Abuse in Ethnic, Immigrant and Aboriginal Communities and the Cambridge History of Law in the United States.
Participating Years
2011–2012
How to Fight: Transformational Politics and Culture
In response to contemporary crises of economics and politics one often sees polemics caught between reform and revolution but this division may be false from the position of radical politics and thought. As many have shown, reform has a more radical potential, one that takes social forms seriously enough to push their limits, to create new relations, to pose, as it were, non-reformist reform. Are there philosophical, literary, and aesthetic expressions of possibility that give us some purchase on rethinking how we do what we do?