Encyclopedia Contributors

Ulla Aatsinki teaches at the Tampere University in Finland with a PhD in history. She has published books and articles on working class history, particularly the Finnish and Finnish American Left in the first half of the twentieth century.

Nabeel Abraham, an Arab American anthropologist and activist, retired from Henry Ford College, Dearborn, Michigan.

Frank T. Adams (deceased) wrote Unearthing Seeds of Fire: The Idea of Highlander (1975) and James A. Dombrowski: An American Heretic, 1897-1983 (1992).

Muhammed Ahmad (also known as Max Stanford) was a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Revolutionary Action Movement. He was a protégé of Malcolm X and a leading figure in the resurgence of Black nationalism during the 1960s.

Ernest Allen Jr is a professor emeritus of the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Joe Allen is a retired Teamster and author of The Package King: A Rank and File History of the United Parcel Service (2020).

Naomi Allen was expelled from the Socialist Workers Party in 1984. She went on to be active in Local 100, Transport Workers Union, and in its Hell on Wheels and New Directions caucuses, and a champion of Palestinian rights.

Ana Maria Alonso is an associate professor emerita of anthropology at the University of Arizona.

Philip G. Altbach served as the national chair of the Student Peace Union between 1959 and 1962. He is professor emeritus and former Distinguished Fellow, Center for International Higher Education, Boston College.

Arielle Angel is writer and Editor-in-Chief of Jewish Currents. She grew up in Miami and lives in Brooklyn.

David H. Anthony III is a professor emeritus of African studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Herbert Aptheker (deceased), author of American Negro Slave Revolts, Afro-American History: The Modern Era (1936), and Anti-Racism in U.S. History: From the Colonial Era to the End of the Civil War (1992). He also edited the seven-volume Documentary History of the Negro People (1951) and the correspondence and writing of W.E.B. Du Bois.

Malcolm Archibald is a translator and publisher of works about the history of Russian and Ukrainian anarchism. He lives in Edmonton, Alberta.

Robert Armstrong was a member of the North American Congress on Latin America from1980 to 1986.

Dexter Arnold is a labor activist and labor historian. He served as assistant to the president at the South Central (Wisconsin) Federation of Labor and NH AFL-CIO field staff. He has taught in the University of Illinois Global Labor Studies Program.

Patricia Arnold is a professor emerita of accounting at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Ronald Aronson was an editor of Studies on the Left in the 1960s, an activist in New American Movement in the 1970s, and became a member of Democratic Socialists of America and New Jewish Agenda in the 1980s. Among his books are After Marxism (1994), Living Without God (2008), and We: Reviving Social Hope (2017). He is co-producer with Judy Montel of the films Professional Revolutionary: The Life of Saul Wellman and First Amendment On Trial: The Case of the Detroit Six.

Amy Aronson is a professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University. She is the U.S. Editor of Media History: An International Quarterly and author of Crystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life (2019).

Evan R. Ash is a historian focusing on visual culture, especially comics, and the US history of childhood in the twentieth-century.

Robert Asher is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Connecticut Workers and Technological Change (1983) and co-editor of Labor Divided: Race and Ethnicity in United States Labor Struggles, 1835-1960 (1990).

Christina Looper Baker (deceased) was a teacher and social activist and taught English and women’s studies for twenty-five years at the University of Maine.

Barbara Bair is a public historian in Washington, D.C., and the former associate editor of the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers project at UCLA

Rudoph Baranik (deceased) was a Lithuanian American painter and arts activist.

James R. Barrett is a professor emeritus of history and African American studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and the author of History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in Working Class History (2017). He is at work on Chicago: A Peoples' History.

Francoise Basch (deceased), a founder of Groupe des etudes feministe, taught at the Universite de Paris.

Rachel A. Batch is an associate professor of history at Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania.

Lee Baxandall (deceased) was a member of the editorial board of Studies on the Left. Among his works are Marxism and Aesthetics (1969) and the anthology Radical Perspectives in the Arts (1972). He devoted his later life to promoting naturism.

Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall (deceased) was a feminist activist, a founding member of New York Radical Women, and a professor of American studies at SUNY-Old Westbury. A scholar of the life of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, she co-edited America’s Working Women, 1600 to the Present (1976).

Edward D. Beechert (deceased) was a professor of labor history at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa.

Joel Donald Beinin is the J. McLachlan Professor of History and professor emeritus of Middle East history at Stanford University.

Jon Bekken is a professor of communications at Albright College, co-author of The Industrial Workers of the World: Its First 100 Years (2006), and co-editor of Radical Economics and. Labor. He is a founding co-editor of Anarcho-Syndicalist Review and edited the Industrial Worker for several years.

Marcella Bencivenni is a professor of history at Hostos Community College of The City University of New York. She is the author of Italian Immigrant Radical Culture: The Idealism of the Sovversivi, 1890-1940 (2011) and co-editor of “Radical Perspectives on Immigration,” a special issue of the journal Socialism and Democracy (March 2008).

Scott H. Bennett is a professor of history at Georgian Court University and past president of the Peace History Society. He is the author of Radical Pacifism: The War Resisters League and Gandhian Nonviolence in America (2003), and editor of Antiwar Dissent & Peace Activism in World War I America: A Documentary Reader (2014) and Army GI, Pacifist CO: The World War II Letters of Frank and Albert Dietrich (2005).

Trude Bennett is an associate professor emerita of maternal and child health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a long-time social activist and a member of Science for the People. She lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Bettina Berch has written biographies of Elizabeth Hawes, Frances Benjamin Johnson and Anzia Yezierska, as well as a textbook on women in the economy She teaches economics in the Borough of Manhattan Community Colleges.

David Berger was born and raised first in Brooklyn and then in that most bohemian and leftist of suburbs, Croton-on-Hudson. He currently writes, teaches and works as a union organizer. He has been known to work to Ban the Bomb, March on Washington, build rank-and-file groups in unions, Occupy Wall Street, etc. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, the singer/songwriter Audra "Ms. Blu" Berger.

Debra Bernhardt (deceased) was the head of the archival collections at New York University.

Phillip Berryman is the author of Latin America at 2000: A New Introduction and Memento of the Living and the Dead: A First-Person Account of Church, Violence, and Resistance in Latin America (2019), centered on the 1965-1990 period.

Norman ‘Rick’ Best is the manager of the Bill of Rights Trust for the ACLU, former finance director for the Center of Constitutional Rights, and executive director for the National Lawyers Guild. He is currently driving trains and boats for the Newport Narragansett Bay Railroad in Rhode Island.

Steve Best teaches at the University of Texas, El Paso. His areas of expertise encompass philosophy, literature, social and political theory, cultural studies, film and mass media, science and technology studies, politics, terrorism and peace/security studies, and ethics (with a focus on animal rights, environmentalism, and biotechnology).

Teresa Bill, trained in US women's labor history, now coordinates a program for TANF participants pursuing college degrees within the University of Hawaii system.

Casey N. Blake is Mendelson Family Professor of American studies and the founding director of the Center for American Studies at Columbia University.

Faye M. Blake (deceased) wrote The Strike in the American Novel (1972) and (with H. Morton Newman) Verbis Non Factis: Worlds Meant to Influence Political Choice in the United States, 1880-1980 (1995). She also co-edited a quarterly newsletter, News from Nowhere, concerned with the works of William Morris.

Marty Blatt, professor emeritus of public history, Northeastern University, served as director of the Northeastern public history program and previously worked for the National Park Service in Boston and Lowell for twenty-four years. Blatt was the recipient of the National Council on Public History 2020 Robert Kelley Award.

Alexander Bloom is a professor emeritus of history at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. He is the author of Prodigal Sons: The New York Intellectuals and Their World (1986); Takin' It to the Streets: A Sixties Reader (4/e 2015); and “Long Time Gone”: Sixties America Then and Now (2001).

Jon Bloom is Director of the Workers Defense League.

Herb Boyd is an award winning author and journalist who has published a number of books and countless articles for national magazines and newspapers. His most recent publication is Black Detroit—A People’s History of Self-Determination (2017). Brotherman—The Odyssey of Black Men in America—An Anthology (1995), co-edited with Robert Allen, won the American Book Award for nonfiction. He taught African American history and culture at the City College of New York.

Peter Bratsis is associate professor of political science and liberal studies at Borough of Manhattan Community College and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Marjorie Woodford Bray is a professor emeritus in Latin American studies at California State University, Los Angeles. She is a specialist in Central America and Cuba, with expertise in film studies.

Paul Breines edited Critical Interruptions: New Left Perspectives (1970) on Herbert Marcuse, and, from 1975 through 2010, at Boston College, he taught modern European intellectual history and LGBT history in the West. With Andrew Arato, he co-authored The Young Lukács and the Origins of Western Marxism (1980).

Eric Breitbart (deceased) was a documentary filmmaker and a former member of New York newsreel. Among his films are Clockwork, about Frederick Winslow Taylor, The Archive of Memory about Aby Warburg, and I Paint What I See about Diego Rivera.

Steve Brier co-founded (with Herbert Gutman) the American Social History Project in 1981 and served as co-author, editor, and producer of the Project's "Who Built America?” multimedia curriculum. A professor emeritus, he taught the history of public education in the CUNY Graduate Center's PhD Program in Urban Education and labor history at CUNY's School of Labor and Urban Studies.

Ernie Brill, born in Brooklyn, is a lifetime antiracist writer of fiction and poetry. He is also a walking library of sparkling literature with a sense of humor.

J. Quinn Brisben (deceased) was a Chicago high school teacher and longtime activist in progressive causes who was arrested seven times in disability rights demonstrations between 1991 and 1997. He was the Socialist Party, USA, presidential candidate in 1992.

Amy Bromsen has been a union organizer, educator, activist and member of pro-democracy caucuses inside the United Auto Workers. She retired from Chrysler after serving on the UAW Chrysler Council during the fight against two-tier wages and benefits at Chrysler. She earned a PhD in political science. Her work on class, race and gender has appeared in Annual Review of Political Science, Michigan Historical Review and Critical Sociology. She is a researcher in industrial relations at Wayne State University.

Lorraine Brown (deceased) was a scholar of the Federal Theatre Project, the director of the Works Projects Administration Theater Archives, and a founder of the women’s studies degree program at George Mason University.

David Brundage retired as a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz after thirty-eight years of interdisciplinary teaching. A scholar of immigration and working-class history, he is the author The Making of Western Labor Radicalism: Denver’s Organized Workers 1878-1988 (1994) and Irish Nationalists in America: The Politics of Exile, 1878-1998 (2016).

Enrique M. Buelna is a professor in the History Department at Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz, California. His research interests include working-class history, civil rights, social movements, immigration, race, class, and oral history. He is the author of Chicano Communists and the Struggle for Social Justice (2019).

Evelyn Burg teaches at the City University of New York. Her study of Kenneth Burke, intellectual history, and aesthetics can be found in Modern Intellectual History (2016).

Sean Burns is a San Francisco Bay Area based educator, writer, and musician who works in the College Writing Program at UC Berkeley. He earned his PhD in the History of Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz, and his book on cultural maverick Archie Green was awarded the 2012 CLR James Book of the Year Award.

Kenneth C. Burt (deceased) wrote The Search for a Civic Voice: California Latino Politics (2007) and essays on labor and Latino politics in California.

Orisanmi Burton is an associate professor of anthropology at American University. He is the author of Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, the Long Attica Revolt (2023).

Vernon Burton is the Judge Matthew J. Perry, Jr. Distinguished Professor of History, professor of computer science, Clemson University, and University Distinguished Teacher/Scholar emeritus, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Lawrence Bush is editor emeritus of Jewish Currents magazine and author of numerous books, including Bessie: A Novel of Love and Revolution (2000); Waiting for God: The Spiritual Explorations of a Reluctant Atheist (2007); and Pinko Jew: Jewish Identity and Progressive Politics (2018).

William E. Cain is Mary Jewett Gaiser Professor of English at Wellesley College. His publications include, as co-editor, The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (3rd ed., 2018).

Duane Campbell is a professor emeritus of bilingual/multicultural education at California State University Sacramento. Longtime activist in Democratic Socialists of America, he also served as co-chair of Immigrants Rights Working Group of DSA. He is the author of Choosing Democracy: A Practical Guide to Multicultural Education (4th ed, 2010) and other works.

Oscar V. Campomanes is a professor in the Department of English, H. de la Costa G/F, School of Humanities, Loyola Schools, Ateneo de Manila University.

George Warren Carey (deceased) was a professor in the Department of Urban Studies, Rutgers University.

Clayborne Carson is the Martin Luther King Jr Centennial Professor emeritus at Stanford University and director of the Martin Luther King Jr Research and Educational Institute. He has written and published extensively on the civil rights movement.

Steven Cassedy retired in 2018 as Distinguished Professor of Literature and associate dean of the Graduate Division at University of California, San Diego. His latest work is What Do We Mean When We Speak of Meaning?(2022).

B. Marcus L. Cederstrom earned his BA from the University of Oregon in sports business, history, and Scandinavian studies and his PhD in Scandinavian studies and folklore from the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he works in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic. His research focuses on Scandinavian American folklife as well as the intersections of immigration, labor, and creative expression.

Larry Ceplair has been writing about the blacklist since 1975. He is the co-author of The Inquisition in Hollywood (1980) and author of biographies of Paul Jarrico and Dalton Trumbo. He published an anthology of blacklist articles to mark its seventy-fifth anniversary: The Hollywood Motion Picture Blacklist (2022).

Luisa Cetti (deceased) was an independent scholar focusing on American women’s history and the history of Milan, Italy. Her books include A Phalanstery in New York (1992) and Forever Free: L'esilio romano di Edmonia Lewis (2017).

Jules Chametzky (deceased) taught English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He was an active trade unionist, member of the NAACP, managing editor and coeditor of the Massachusetts Review.

Ethan Chang is an Asian American educator and activist scholar based at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. His research extends Collaborative, Community-Based Research and aims to produce knowledge that is answerable to most and multiple marginalized communities.

Carolle Charles is an associate professor of sociology at Baruch College, CUNY. Her work addresses many facets of Haitian society and the Haitian immigrant experience in North America. As a young, female Caribbean migrant who encountered class, race and gender differences and their patterns of exclusion in the US society, she reaches beyond the academy and into community political engagements.

Robert W. Cherny is professor emeritus of history at San Francisco State University. His books include Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art (2017), Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend (2023), and San Francisco Reds: Communists in the Bay Area, 1919-1958 (2024)

Harold Christoffel (deceased) was the first president of the United Auto Workers Local 248 at Allis-Chalmers and leader of the strikes in 1941 and 1946-1947. A key labor activist, during the Red Scare, he served three years in a federal prison for his connections to the Communist Party.

Brett Clark is a professor of sociology and sustainability studies at the University of Utah and the associate editor of Monthly Review.

Jack Clark served as the founding National Secretary of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, a position he held from 1973-1979.

John P. Clark is a writer, activist, and educator. He lives in New Orleans and in the forest of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, where he directs La Terre Institute for Community and Ecology. His most recent book is Between Earth and Empire: From the Necrocene to the Beloved Community (2019).

Owen Clayton is a senior lecturer in English literature at the University of Lincoln (UK). He is the editor of Representing Homelessness, published as part of the Proceedings of the British Academy series in November 2020. He edited the letters of William Aspinwall, a nineteenth-century US American hobo: Roving Bill Aspinwall: Dispatches from a Hobo in Post-Civil War America (2022). He also wrote Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos: Transiency in American Literature and Culture, 1890-1940 (2023).

Rev. Dr. Duane Clinker is a liberationist pastor in urban Rhode Island, a former factory worker, labor/community/faith organizer, and long-time socialist and radical Christian.

David Cochran is the author of America Noir: Underground Writers and Filmmakers of the Postwar Era (2000). He teaches history at John A. Logan College in Carterville, Illinois.

Eva Sperling Cockcroft (deceased) was a well-known painter and muralist who wrote extensively on Latin American art and society.

Jeanette Bailin Cohen (deceased) taught Yiddish stenography at the School for Jewish Studies and edited a section of her father’s autobiography, IO. B. Bailin’s Altz in Ein Leben.

Peter F. Cohen is a writer and fundraising consultant. His book, Love and Anger: Essays on AIDS, Activism, and Politics (1998), was based on his doctoral research.

Robert Cohen is professor of history and social studies at New York University. He is the author of Howard Zinn's Southern Diary: Sit-ins (2018), Civil Rights, and Black Women's Student Activism (2018), and The Essential Mario Savio: Speeches and Writings That Changed America (2014). He is the co-editor of With Liberty and Justice for All? The Constitution in the Classroom (2022

Ronald D. Cohen (deceased) retired as professor emeritus of history, Indiana University Northwest, and as the author, co-author, or editor of numerous books on the history of folk music in the United States and Great Britain, including Folk City: New York and the American Folk Music Revival (2015).

Peter Cole is a distinguished professor of history at Western Illinois University in Macomb. He is the author of the award-winning Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area (2018), Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia (2007), and Ben Fletcher: The Life and Writings of a Black Wobbly (2021). He is the founder and codirector of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project.

Vanessa Coook received her PhD in US history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2015. She is the author of Spiritual Socialists: Religion and the American Left (2019). She served as the historian for the Missing in Action Project in Madison, Wisconsin.

Christine Cooper is a professor of accounting at the University of Edinburgh and co-editor of the journal Critical Perspectives on Accounting.

Sarah Cooper, former archivist at the Wisconsin Historical Society and retired director of the Southern California Library, was responsible for collecting the papers of Frank Wilkinson that are archived at both institutions.

Edward Countryman (deceased) was a Distinguished University Professor of History at Southern Methodist University. Deeply influenced by the idea of a “vast early America,” he fostered the interpretation of the American Revolution as a social revolution.

Richard L. Criley (deceased), a civil rights and labor activist, was the author of The FBI v. the First Amendment (1990).

Mary E. Cygan taught history and American studies at the University of Connecticut from 1990 to 2018. She has published on Polish American family life, Polish language radio comedy, and changing notions of Polish American identity.

Brett Dakin is the author of American Daredevil: Comics, Communism, and the Battles of Lev Gleason (2020) and Another Quiet American: Stories of Life in Laos (2003). A graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School, Brett has been published in the New York Daily News, the International Herald Tribune, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, and The Guardian.

Tim Davenport is lead editor of the Selected Works of Eugene V. Debs project. The first volume was published by Haymarket Books in 2019, the fourth volume in 2025. He also likes to make punk rock records.

Eric Leif Davin, PhD, is a specialist in American labor history and the author of many books, including historical novels about the Great Strike of 1877, the Paterson Pageant of 1913, and the IWW. The Eugene V. Debs Foundation honored him for his research and writing the with its annual prize for work in the tradition of Eugene V. Debs. He published Desperda: A Tale of the Old West (2025).

Kipp M. Dawson is a dues-paying retired member of the United Mine Workers of America and the American Federation of Teachers. She began her social justice activism at her Rosie the Riveter mother’s side, continued from the civil rights movement through the struggles of the 1960s and since, with sojourns in or as a supporter of the CPUSA as a youth, to twenty-five years in the Socialist Workers Party, to three decades of activism as a teacher/learner who still believes.

Robert D’Attilio (deceased), the son of Italian immigrants, wrote on many topics related to the Italian American experience, particularly the Sacco-Vanzetti Case and the photographer and political activist Tina Modotti.

John De Graaf is an independent producer of documentary film and television documentaries and the co-author of Affluenza: How Overconsumption Is Killing Us –and How to Fight Back (2014). He has won many awards, including three Emmy awards.

Gene DeGruson (deceased) was the curator from 1968 to 1997 of the E. Haldeman-Julius Collection, Pittsburg State University, Kansas. He also served as president of the Little Balkans Foundation.

Pele De Lappe (deceased) taught at the California Labor School and for many years wrote and provided art and political cartoons for the People’s World newspaper. As an artist, she is known for her social realist paintings and drawings.

Jerri Dell is the author of Blood Too Bright – Floyd Dell Remembers Edna St. Vincent Millay (2017) about her grandfather’s love affair with poet Edna St. Vincent Millay and his life in Bohemian Greenwich Village. She published a memoir - Expecting the World – Learning from Women in Left-Out Places (2021)– about her thirty years working with village women in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

John D'Emilio has written widely on LGBTQ history, the history of sexuality, and social movements. His books include Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin (2003) and Queer Legacies: Stories from Chicago's LGBTQ Archives. (2020). He also wrote a memoir, Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood (2022).

Michael Denning teaches American studies at Yale University. His books include The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (1996) and Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of the World Musical Revolution (2015).

Jackie DiSalvo, professor emerita, Baruch College and Graduate Center, City University of New York, is a scholar of literature, including William Blake and the radical tradition. She is a life-long activist from Mississippi Freedom Summer to Occupy Wall Street, heading its Labor Outreach Committee. She also served as a delegate to CUNY faculty union and its anti-imperialist International Committee and to the national AFT.

Velma Doby (deceased) was a Community Programs assistant at the Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota.

Harvey Dong is a second-generation Chinese American who was active in TWLF-UC Berkeley strike for ethnic studies and the struggle to save the International Hotel (1969-1977). He teaches Asian American history, Chinese American history and Asian American contemporary issues at UC-Berkeley. He is the author of the award-winning The People Won’t Stop: The Legacy of the TWLF at UC-Berkeley (2020).

Joe Doyle is a historian of the National Maritime Union. He taught history in New York City high schools for twenty-five years, helped the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade put out their newsletter, and interviewed scores of Irish American and maritime radicals.

Richard Drake is the Lucile Speer Research Chair in Politics and History, Department of History, University of Montana. He published Charles Austin Beard: The Return of the Master Historian of American Imperialism (2018).

Tim Drescher (deceased) documented, wrote about, designed and painted community murals in several countries since 1972. He co-edited Community Murals Magazine, contributed and catalogued 6,000 mural slides for the ARTStor digital art repository, and co-authored Give Me Life (2016), an analytical history of East Los Angeles murals. He was the co-chair of Rescue Public Murals.

Thorne Webb Dreyer is a writer, editor, broadcaster, and political activist. A veteran of SDS and a member of DSA, Dreyer was a pioneer of the 1960s underground press. He was a founder of The Rag in Austin and Space City! in Houston and served on the editorial collective at Liberation News Service (LNS) in New York. He edits The Rag Blog and hosts and produces the syndicated Rag Radio program.

Peter Drucker, active on the left since the 1970s in the United States and the Netherlands, is the author of Max Shachtman and His Left (1993) and Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism (2015).

Ellen Carol DuBois is professor emerita of history and gender studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of multiple books on the history of woman suffrage in the United States.

David S. Duhalde is the former youth organizer and served as deputy director of the Democratic Socialists of America, which he joined in 2003.

Frances H. Early is professor emerita in history and women’s studies at Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. She received the Charles DeBenedetti Prize in Peace History in 1990. Her books are: Athena’s Daughters: Television’s New Women Warriors (2003); A World Without War: How U.S. Feminists and Pacifists Resisted World War I (1997), and Immigrant Odyssey: A French-Canadian Habitant in New England (1991).

Alice Echols is the Barbra Streisand Professor of Contemporary Gender Studies, Department of History, Dana & David Dornsife College, University of Southern California.The thirtieth anniversary edition of her pathbreaking book Daring to Be Bad appeared in 2019.

Carol Edmonston, author and speaker, is Syd Hoff's niece. To preserve and honor his legacy, she created the website.

John Ehrenreich, a clinical psychologist, was on the staff of Health-PAC 1969-71. He has written widely on American society, including The Cultural Crisis of Modern Medicine (1978), The Altruistic Imagination (1985), Third Wave Capitalism (2016), and The Making of a Pandemic: Social, Political, and Psychological Perspectives on Covid-19 (1922).

Max Elbaum was a member of SDS at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in the late 1960s and was active in the New Communist Movement in the early 1970s. He was a founding member and leader of the Line of March organization and was Managing Editor of CrossRoads. He is the author of Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin Mao and Che (2002). He is a member of the editorial board of Convergence Magazine.

Luke P. Elliott-Negri is active in the labor movement and is a scholar of labor movements and political parties.

Frank Emspak (deceased) was a union activist and elected local leader in the UE, IUE and AFT. He was involved in organizing in Lynn, Massachusetts and Madison, Wisconsin and co-produced Madison Labor radio. He was a regular commentator for PRSS TV, the Iranian equivalent of Al Jazeera.

John P. Enyeart, professor, Department of History, Bucknell University, is the author of Death to Fascism: Louis Adamic's Fight for Democracy (2019).

Bret Eynon served as education director of the American Social History Project – City University of New York. He is the co-editor of 1968: A Student Generation in Revolt : An International Oral History (1988). A social historian and educational administrator, he retired from LaGuardia Community College where he founded the Center for Teaching and Learning.

Gil Fagiani (deceased) was a founder of Italian Americans for a Multicultural United States and wrote about American radicals such as Vito Marcantonnio, Mario Savio, Nicola Sacco, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.

Ashley D. Farmer, associate professor, history & African & African diaspora studies, University of Texas-Austin, wrote the award-winning Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era (2017) and co-edited New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition (2018). She also wrote Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore (2025).

Dianne Feeley is a retired autoworker active in Detroit Eviction Defense. She is an editor of the socialist bimonthly Against the Current.

Sander Feinberg develops adult learning materials, builds websites, and writes and edits articles on activism and education. His current passion is preserving and communicating the history of twentieth-century Hungarian immigrants to the United States who changed our world in art, film and human rights.

Garrett Felber an interdisciplinary scholar whose work focuses in twentieth-century Black radicalism and social movements. He wrote Those Who Don’t Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State (2019).

Benjamin Feldman is a historian of the twentieth-century United States and teaches at California State University, East Bay. His work explores the role of the Third World in Post-War American political thought.

Rosemary Feurer teaches at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950 (2006), Against Labor: How U.S. Emplpyers Organized to Defeat Union Activism (2017), and Illinois Mine Wars, 1860-1935 (forthcoming).

Thomas Fiehrer is an organic farmer. He taught many years at Louisiana State University and Tulane University and has traveled and lectured widely in China and south Asia. He specializes in the demography of the lower Mississippi Valley and fava bean varietals.

Leon Fink is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the founding editor of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History. He ist he author of Undoing the Liberal World Order: Progressive Ideals and Political Realities since World War II (2022).

Bob Fisher taught social history, critical theory, and community organizing at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Let the People Decide: Neighborhood Organizing in America (1984/1994) and co-author of Contesting Community: The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing (2010), which compares the impact of neoliberalism on activism in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, and books on privatization, globalization, and ACORN. He is the recipient of three Fulbright-Hays Scholar awards.

Don Fitz is on the editorial board of Green Social Thought where a version of this entry was first published. He was the 2016 candidate of the Missouri Green Party for Governor and in 2018 for state auditor. He is the author of Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution (2020).

Frederick Vanderbilt Field (deceased) was an editor of Amerasia and wrote his autobiography From Right to Left (1965), which describes his time in the Communist Party.

Tara Fitzpatrick, the former Director of Foundation Relations for Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at Yale University, has a doctorate in history from Yale. She has held positions at Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University, and Mount Holyoke College.

Harry Fleischman (deceased) was National Secretary of the Socialist Party and managed Norman Thomas’s presidential campaigns in 1944 and 1948. He also served as chair of the Workers Defense League.

Philip S. Foner (deceased) was the author of many books on labor, African American, and radical history. He taught at Lincoln University, a historically Black institution, from 1967 until his retirement in 1979.

John Bellamy Foster is a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and editor of Monthly Review. He is the author of The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology (2020) and Capitalism and the Anthropocene: Ecological Ruination or Ecological Revolution (2022).

Dana Frank is professor emerita of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of multiple books including What Can We Learn From the Great Depression? Stories of Ordinary People and Collective Action in Hard Times (2024), Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929 (1994); Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism (1999); Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America (2005); and Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, and Salesgirls and the Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century (2001), with Robin D.G. Kelley and Howard Zinn.

Miriam Frank studied German language, history, and literature at New York University. With her PhD in hand she journeyed to West Berlin in 1977-1978 and reported for US feminist journals on left feminist activity, featuring essays and translations from the international movement for Wages for Housework. She was a founder of Women's Studies at Detroit's Wayne County Community College and then taught working women's history and labor history for twenty-three years in New York City union halls.

Steve Fraser is a writer and historian. His most recent books include Class Matters: The Strange Career of an American Delusion (2018) and Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property: Capitalism and Class Conflict in American History (2019). He is the author of Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor (1991).

Samuel R. Friedman is Associate Director, Institute of Infectious Disease Research, National Development and Research Institutes, and a faculty member at New York University Grossman School of Medicine.

Diane C. Fujino, professor, Department of Asian American Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, has served as an associate editor of the Journal of Asian American Studies. She is the author of Nisei Radicals (2020).

Christine Ward Gailey is a professor emerita of anthropology and women’s studies at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Kinship to Kingship: Gender and State Formation in the Tongan Islands (1987).

Larry Gambone grew up in logging towns and developed an early interest in labor and social history. He was involved in the New Left, the IWW and social ecology.

Virginia Gardner (deceased) was a progressive journalist with a longtime association with the Communist Party. She wrote for the Daily Worker and Masses & Mainstream and served as editorial assistant to socialist Corliss Lamont from 1963 to 1971.

Mario T. Garcia is a distinguished professor emeritus of Chicana and Chicano studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Blowout! Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice (2011).

Paul Garon (deceased) and Beth Garon, proprietors of Beasley Books, a rare book business in Chicago, wrote Woman with Guitar: Memphis Minnie’s Blues (2014).

Dee Garrison (deceased) taught history at Rutgers University for thirty-three years. She was a pioneer in women’s studies and a specialist the 1960s and peace and labor movements. She was an active member of the Peace History Society.

Paul Garver was a founding member of New American Movement and Democratic Socialists of America and served on both of their national committees.

Hedda Garza (deceased) was a longtime political activist who wrote books for young adults on Salvador Allende, Leon Trotsky, and Francisco Franco. Her Watergate Investigative Index won the Best Academic Award given by Choice magazine.

Daniel Geary teaches at Trinity College Dublin and is the author of Radical Ambition: C. Wright Mills, the Left, and American Social Thought (2009) and Beyond Civil Rights: The Moynihan Report and its Legacy (2015). He is the co-author of Global White Nationalism: From Apartheid to Trump (2020).

Mark I. Gelfand has taught history at Boston College, focusing on issues of modern American urban development and policy. He is the author of A Nation of Cities: The Federal Government and Urban America, 1933–1965 (1975) and Trustee for a City: Ralph Lowell of Boston (1998).

Erik S. Gellman researches and teaches about working-class and urban life, visual culture, and comparative social movements in modern American history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of Troublemakers: Chicago Freedom Struggles Through the Lens of Art Shay (2020) and Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights (2012).

Chris George is a DSA activist and labor and tenant union organizer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Dan Georgianna is a professor emeritus of economics at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He is the former president of the UMass Faculty Federation AFT Local 1895 and co-author of The Strike of '28 (1993).

Marvin Gettleman (deceased) served on the executive board of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and the National Writers Union. He wrote widely on US radicalism, Indochina, and Central America.

Toni Gilpin is a labor historian and activist who holds a PhD in American history from Yale University. She is the author of The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland (2020), judged the 2020 Book of the Year by the International Labor History Association.

Ann Fagan Ginger (deceased) taught human rights and peace law at San Francisco State University and served as Executive Director of the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute. She wrote Carol Weiss King: Human Rights Lawyer (1993), The Cold War Against Labor (1987), and Human Rights and Peace Law Docket, 1945-1993 (2003).

Frank Girard (deceased) was a radical activist and educator from West Michigan. He edited the Discussion Bulletin, a libertarian communist publication, from1983 to 2003.

Martin Glaberman (deceased), Detroit autoworker for twenty years and close associate of C.L.R. James, taught at Wayne State University and wrote Wartime Strikes (1980).

Fred Glass is a retired union communications director and faculty member in Labor and Community Studies at City College of San Francisco. He is the author of From Mission to Microchip: A History of the California Labor Movement (2016) and writer/director of numerous labor-related videos. He is a member of AFT Local 2121 and East Bay DSA.

Nathan Godfried is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Maine. He is the author of WCFL, Chicago’s Voice of Labor, 1926-1978 (1997) and numerous articles on labor and broadcasting.

David Goldberg was, before his retirement, for twenty-six years associate director of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL) and the office of Foreign Language Programs at the Modern Language Association (MLA). He received a PhD in Yiddish Studies and is the author of an intermediate-level Yiddish text book, Yidish af yidish.

Mike Goldfield is a former labor and civil rights agitator, currently professor emeritus and faculty fellow at the Fraser Center for Workplace Issues, Wayne State University. He is the author of numerous books and articles including The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s (2020), as well as The Decline of Organized Labor in the United States (1987), and The Color of Politics: Race and the Mainsprings of American Politics (1997).

David Goldway (deceased) was Director of the Jefferson School from1940 to 1956 and also served as editor of Science and Society.

Steve Golin (deceased) taught history at Kansas State University and Bloomfield College in New Jersey, a majority Black independent college. He wrote The Fragile Bridge: Paterson Silk Strike, 1913 (1988); The Newark Teacher Strikes: Hopes on the Line (2002); and Four Women Who Invented the Sixties: Ella Baker, Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, and Betty Friedan (2022).

Eric A. Gordon is the author of a biography of composer Marc Blitzstein, co-author of composer Earl Robinson’s autobiography, and the first-time English translator (from Portuguese) of the nine books of fiction by Manuel Tiago (pseudonym for Portuguese Communist Party leader Álvaro Cunhal). He holds a doctorate in history from Tulane University. He is a member of the National Writers Union, director emeritus of the Workers Circle/Arbeter Ring Southern California District, writer and editor on People’s World.

Jane Anna Gordon is a professor of political science and social and critical inquiry, with affiliations in American studies, El Instituto, philosophy, and women's, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Statelessness and Contemporary Enslavement (2020).

Linda Gordon is University Professor Emerita of the Humanities and Florence Kelley Professor of History at New York University.

Tom Goyens is a professor of history at Salisbury University in Maryland. He is the author of Beer and Revolution: The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880-1914 (2007), Johann Most: Life of a Radical (2025) and editor of Radical Gotham: Anarchism in New York City from Schwab's Saloon to Occupy Wall Street (2017).

John Graham taught in the Department of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Archie Green (deceased) was a folklorist with a specialty in laborlore and folk music. He was a longtime member of San Francisco Shipwrights’ Local 2236, UBCJA, and the author of books on labor songs and legends.

Brian E. Greenberg was the Jules Plangere Chair Emeritus of American Social History at Monmouth University. He is the author of The Dawning of American Labor: The New Republic to the Industrial Age (2017); and co-author with Leon Fink of Upheaval in the Quiet Zone: 1199/SEIU (1989).

Bob Greene is a retired bookstore owner and a scholar of detective fiction and radicalism in the US Northwest.

Renee Greene Levitt first became aware of Lewis Corey while working on her Rutgers University MA thesis and then became fascinated with his transition from communist activist Fraina to anti-communist academic Corey. Renee is a long-time activist with DSA.

Goldie Gross, artist and curator, holds a MA in the history of art and archaeology at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, with a focus on modern Jewish art, particularly the political variety.

David Hacker was for several decades the indexer for Jewish Currents.

Clark “Bucky” Halker, PhD, is a Chicago musician and labor historian. His recent credits include Anywhere But Utah: Songs of Joe Hill (2015) and Chicago Kids Play and Sing Hoagy: Bucky Halker Presents the Legendary Hoagy Carmichael’s Songs for Children of All Ages (2020).

Rick Halpern is a historian based in Toronto, Canada. He writes about race and labor in a number of national and international contexts.

Marilyn Halter is a professor emerita of history and American studies, Boston University.

Ben Harris is professor emeritus of psychology and affiliate in history at the University of New Hampshire. He is a specialist in the history of the behavioral sciences.

Hershl Hartman (deceased) has been a Yiddish-English-Yiddish translator since his late ’teens when he became the first native-born journalist in the US Yiddish press as a reporter for the morgn frayhayt (Morning Freedom). A secular Jewish vegvayzer/madrikh/Leader, he has served the Los Angeles Sholem Community and Sunday School since 1967 as principal and educational director. As convenor of the Los Angeles Secular Yeshiva, he has trained and certified ten vegvayzer successors. He was a founding member of Democratic Socialists of America.

Donna T. Haverty-Stacke is a professor of history at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of The Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson: Catholic, Socialist, Feminist (2020).

Jeff Haydu is a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Between Craft and Class: Skilled Workers and Factory Politics in the United States and Britain, 1890-1922 (1988); Citizen Employers: Business Communities and Labor in Cincinnati and San Francisco, 1870-1916 (2008), and Upsetting Food: Three Eras of the U.S. Food Movement (2021).

Ulrike Heider is a scholar of anarchism and free-lance writer in Berlin and New York. She is the author of Anarchism: Left, Right and Green (1994).

Art Heitzer is a civil rights and employment attorney. He has served as the co-chair of the National Lawyers Guild Cuba Subcommittee and is the founder and leader of the Wisconsin Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba.

Paget Henry is a professor emeritus of sociology and Africana studies at Brown University.

John Heppen is a professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin River Falls.

Julie Herrada is the curator of the Joseph A. Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan Library, where she collects and manages holdings related to international social protest movements. She also curates exhibitions and assists students and researchers from all over the world. She holds an MLS with a Certificate in Archival Administration from Wayne State University.

Rachel Herzing has served as the executive director of Center for Political Education, a resource for political organizations on the left, progressive social movements, the working class and people of color. She is the co-founder of Critical Resistance, an organization devoted to abolishing the prison industrial complex. She is the author of How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Front Lines of the Movement Against Prisons (2025)

Melanie Herzog is a professor emerita of art history at Edgewood College and senior lecturer in Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds an MFA in ceramics and a PhD in art history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With an emphasis on artists' encounters across cultural and geographical borders, socially engaged artistic practice, and intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, and representation, she teaches, publishes, and lectures widely on North American art and visual culture.

Patricia Hills is a professor emerita of the history of art and architecture at Boston University. She taught American art, African American art, and art and politics for forty years and also curated exhibitions for the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Boston University Art Gallery, and the American Federation of Arts. In 2011 she received the Distinguished Teaching of Art History award from the College Art Association. The Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution holds her papers, 1900-2022.

Dirk Hoerder is professor emeritus of history, Arizona State University and formerly of the Universitaet Bremen, Sozialwissenschaften. His books include Cultures in Context: World Migrations in the Second Millennium (2002); and What is Migration History (2009) with Christiane Harzig and Donna Gabaccia.

John Holmes teaches history at Merritt College in California and served on the executive council of the Peralta Federation of Teachers. He was previously an activist in the typographical union. He is preparing a biography of Noah London, a founding leader of the Jewish section of the American Communist Party and a victim of repression in the Soviet Union. He also created a collection on Noah London, located at the Tamiment Library, New York University.

Eric Homberger is a professor emeritus, School of Art, Media, and American Studies at the University of East Anglia and is the author of American Writers and Radical Politics, 1900-30 (1986).

Michael K. Honey is a teacher and scholar of labor and freedom movement history, focusing especially on labor in the South and Martin Luther King's struggle for economic justice and to end racism, poverty and war. He has authored and co-authored many books and made a film, "Love and Solidarity: James M. Lawson and Nonviolence in the Search for Workers' Rights." He is a former civil liberties organizer in the South.

Daniel Horowitz is the Mary Huggins Gamble Professor Emeritus of American Studies at Smith College. He is the author of Entertaining Entrepreneurs: Reality TV’s Shark Tank and the American Dream in Uncertain Times (2020), Happier? The History of a Cultural Movement That Aspired to Transform America (2018), and Bear With Me: A Cultural History of Famous Bears in America (2025).

Gerald Horne, author and activist, has published more than three dozen books, including The Counter Revolution of 1836: Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the Roots of American Fascism (2022) and The Capital of Slavery: Washington, D.C. 1800-1865 (2025).

Malaika B. Horne, PhD, is a political and cultural writer and commentator. She is the founding director (retired) of the Executive Leadership Consortium at the University of Missouri-St. Louis in the School of Business Administration. She served for several years as a reviewer for the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education.

Andrew Emerson Hunt, a professor of history at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, is the author of The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (1999), David Dellinger: The Life and Times of a Nonviolent Revolutionary (2006), We Begin Bombing in Five Minutes: Late Cold War Culture in the Age of Reagan (2021), and Beatlemania in America: Fan Culture from Below (2023).

Marilyn Hunter is a veteran labor, environmental, community and education activist, retired after three decades as a UniServ Director (union staff) for the Maryland State Education Association.

Hugh Iglarsh is a member of the Nelson Algren Committee and has been active for many decades on Chicago's theater, critical, and media scene.

Maurice Isserman is the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History at Hamilton College. He is the author of The Other America: The Life of Michael Harrington, (2000) and Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism (2024).

Ambre Ivol is an associate professor of American Civilization at the University of Nantes, France. Her first book is entitled Du Pacifisme en Amerique: Howard Zinn et la gauche de la Seconde Guerre mondiale au Vietnam (2017).

Joseph Jablonski (deceased), a member of the Chicago surrealist group, was a poet, writer, photographer and union activist.

Maurice Jackson teaches Atlantic, African American and Jazz history at Georgetown University. He is the author of Let This Voice Be Heard: Anthony Benezet, (1713-1784) Father of Atlantic Abolitionism (2009) and Rhythms of Resistance and Resilience (2024) and co-editor of DC Jazz: Stories of Jazz Music in Washington, DC (2018).

Jim Jacobs spent fifty years working at Macomb Community College and retired in 2017 as President of the College. He remains active in progressive politics in the Detroit area.

Ron Jacobs is a writer and activist. His books include The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground (1997), Daydream Sunset: 60s Counterculture in the 70s (2015), Nowhere Land: Journeys Through a Broken Nation (2024), and Slaughtering the Calf: Fighting Trumpism 2.0 (2025).

Russell Jacoby is a former second-string high school basketball player. He taught history at UCLA and is the author of nine books, including Social Amnesia (1975), The Last Intellectuals (1987) and On Diversity (2020).

Geoffrey Jacques is a poet, writer, and editor who has taught at colleges and universities in New York City and in Southern California. His poetry collections of poetry include Hunger and Other Poems (1993), Suspended Knowledge (1998), and Just for a Thrill (2004). He also wrote the critical study A Change in the Weather: Modernist Imagination, African American Imaginary (2009) and The Orchestra of Wind Chimes (2023).

Norma Jenckes (deceased) taught theatre at the University of Cincinnati for nearly thirty years. A native of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, she was also a poet and writer of plays.

John Jentz has done extensive research and publication on labor and immigration with a special emphasis on German workers and Chicago. He wrote, with Richard Schneirov, Chicago in the Age of Capital (2012).

Jacqueline Jones is a labor historian. She is the author of, among other works, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present (2nd ed., 2009); American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor (1998); A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama’s America (2013); Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical (2017); and No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers during the Civil War Era (2023)

Daniel Joslyn is a PhD candidate at New York University who researches the intersection of New Age religious and socialist movements.

Richard W. Judd is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Maine. He specializes in environmental history and wrote Socialist Cities: Municipal Politics and the Grass Roots of American Socialism (1979) and Second Nature: An Environmental History of New England (2013).

Si Kahn has spent more than fifty years as a professional civil rights, union and community organizer. He has simultaneously had successful careers as an author, a composer, lyricist and book writer for musical theater. He is an internationally recognized songwriter, recording and performing artist.

Ramsey Kanaan, inspired by class struggle anarchism and do-it-yourself punk rock, started AK Press as a (very young) teenager in the (very early) 1980s in Scotland. In 2008, he co-founded PM Press, where he acts as the Publisher, whatever that means.

Temma Kaplan is a Distinguished Professor Emerita of History at Rutgers University. She specializes in comparative women’s and gender history and has written Taking Back the Streets: Women, Youth, and Direct Democracy (2004).

Michael G. Karni (deceased), Minnesota educator and historian, was the editor of Finnish Americana and a widely published scholar on the Finnish American left.

Stan Karp is the Director of the Secondary Reform Project for New Jersey's Education Law Center. He taught English and journalism in Paterson, New Jersey for thirty years. He is a member of the editorial board of Rethinking Schools magazine.

Danny Katch is a writer, educator, and amateur comic. He's a member of the Working Class Heroes media collective and the author of Socialism...Seriously: A Brief Guide to Human Liberation (2023) and Why Bad Governments Happen to Good People (2017).

Daniel Katz became the Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, Alfred State College of Technology, SUNY, in 2018. A former union organizer and professor of history, he is the author of All Together Different: Yiddish Socialists, Garment Workers, and the Labor Roots of Multiculturalism (2013).

Harvey J. Kaye, Professor Emeritus of Democracy and Justice Studies, directs the Center for History and Social Change, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

Eric Keenaghan is associate professor of English at the University at Albany, SUNY. He is the author of Queering Cold War Poetry (2009) and has published widely on Cold War-era queer poetry and on leftist American activist-writers, including such figures as Muriel Rukeyser, Robert Duncan, John Wieners, and the Living Theatre's Julian Beck and Judith Malina.

Roger Keeran is a professor emeritus of Empire State College and author of The Communist Party and the Auto Workers Unions (1981), and with Joe Jamison, Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union (2004).

Robin D. G. Kelley is the Gary B. Nash Professor of History at UCLA. He specializes in American and African American history, with an emphasis on social and political movements and music. He has written many books, including Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (2012).

Douglas Kellner is Distinguished Professor in the department of education, gender, and Germanic studies at UCLA and is author of many books on social theory, politics, history, philosophy, and culture, including Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism (1984) and six edited volumes of the collected papers of Herbert Marcuse.

Mark J. Kesselman, professor emeritus of government from Columbia University, served as Senior Editor of the International Political Science Review from 2012-2018.

Alice Kessler-Harris is professor emerita of history and women’s studies at Columbia University and former president of the Organization of American Historians. She writes about gender and social policy as they affect the lives of wage-earning women and their families. Her current project revolves around the question: Why Women’s History?

Jay Kinney was active in the underground comix movement from 1968 on, founder of Anarchy Comics, writer and editor for various Whole Earth publications (1975-2000), and publisher and editor-in-chief of Gnosis: a Journal of the Wester Inner Traditions (1985-1999).

Jeff Kisseloff is the author of five books, including Generation on Fire: Voices of Protest From the 1960s: An Oral History(2006). For some twenty years, he was the editor of two publications published by the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, Rights and The Bill of Rights Journal. For several of those years, he was one of two researchers working on Alger Hiss’s FOIA suit and subsequent coram nobis petition, both sponsored by the NECLC. He wrote Rewriting Hisstory: A Fifty-Year Journey to Uncover the Truth about Alger Hiss (2025.

Matjaž Klemenčič is a retired professor of history at the University of Maribor (Slovenia). In a dozen monographs, he deals with the history of American immigration; nationalisms in the Balkans and Central and Eastern Europe; and Austrian - Slovene (Yugoslav) relations.

Irwin Klibaner taught history and sociology at Madison Area Technical College. He conducted extensive research on the Southern Conference Educational Fund.

Brigitte Koenig earned her PhD in US history from the University of California, Berkeley, where she specialized in the politics of gender, culture, and social movements in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Her work has appeared in various publications, including Labor History, The Encyclopedia of American Recessions and Depressions, The Encyclopedia of New Jersey, Anarchism and Utopianism, and the centenary edition of Jack London's The People of the Abyss. Formerly associate professor of history and co-director of the Elizabeth Ann Seton Center for Women's and Gender Studies at Seton Hall University, she continues to instruct students in US history courses.

Mike Konopacki is a labor cartoonist from Madison, Wisconsin. He and Gary Huck created Huck/Konopacki Labor Cartoons, a labor cartoon syndicate service from 1983-2020. Mike illustrated and co-authored with Paul Buhle Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of American Empire (2008). He now resides in St. Augustine, Florida.

David Konstan (deceased) was a professor of classics at New York University. He wrote on ancient comedy, the novel, Epicurean philosophy, friendship in the classical world, the emotions of the ancient Greeks, the history of forgiveness, the concept of beauty, and the origin of the notion of sin.

Joyce L. Kornbluh (deceased), educator and activist, was a noted authority on labor subjects and editor of Rebel Voices – An IWW Anthology (1964). She retired from the Labor Studies Center, University of Michigan.

Joel Kovel (deceased), a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, was the Alger Hiss Professor of Social Studies at Bard College. Among his books are In Nicaragua (1988) and The Radical Spirit (1988).

Aaron Kramer (deceased) was an American poet, translator, and leftwing cultural activist. Kramer taught English at Dowling College in Oakdale, Long Island, New York.

Paul Krehbiel, a former union worker in auto and transportation, was the chief negotiator for 5,000 SEIU Local 660 Registered Nurses, a builder of Steward Councils, and president of United Union Representatives of Los Angeles 1998-2007. He received his political and labor education in Students for a Democratic Society, the Communist Party, United Electrical Workers (UE), and Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism where he was elected national co-chair in 2016 and re-elected in 2020.

Ben Kreider, PhD, is a researcher and activist based in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC. He has been a member of the Democratic Socialists of America for more than fifteen years and served on the Coordinating Committee of Young Democratic Socialists of America from 2004 to 2007 including one year as international secretary. Kreider has been a proud member of the trade union movement and organized the first union of graduate teaching assistants at Brandeis University.

Nancy Krieger, PhD, is a professor of social epidemiology and the American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Andrew J. Kunka, professor of English at the University of South Carolina Sumter, is the author of Autobiographical Comics (2018), The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse: Taking Risks in the Service of Truth (2021), and with Rachel R. Miller The Routledge Introduction to American Comics (2024)

Dan La Botz is a union activist, journalist, and co-founder of Teamsters for a Democratic Union. He ran for the US Senate in 2010 on the Socialist Party ticket.

David Laibman is a professor emeritus of economics at the Brooklyn College and Graduate School, City University of New York. He served as the editor of Science & Society for almost four decades, taking over from his mentor, Dave Goldway, who served in that tiring but inspirational role before him.

Andrew T. Lamas spent more than a decade developing worker cooperatives and other alternative economic institutions before joining, in 1990, the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches critical theory courses on social finance, liberation theology, aesthetics, pedagogy, and the political economy of racial capitalism. He is a longstanding board member of the International Herbert Marcuse Society, the Bread and Roses Community Fund, and the Radical Philosophy Review.

Aaron Lansky is the founder and served as president of the Yiddish Book Center until his 70th birthday. A recipient of a Macarthur Fellowship, he is the author of Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books (2004). The center’s major initiatives include digitization, free, universal access to Yiddish books, translation, oral history, Yiddish language learning, and educational programs for students of all ages.

Ring Lardner Jr (deceased) was a film writer and political activist. A member of the Hollywood Ten, he was investigated by HUAC blacklisted by Hollywood studios during the McCarthy era.

Eric Larson is an associate professor of crime and justice studies at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He is the author of Grounding Global Justice: Race, Class, and Grassroots Globalism in the U.S. and Mexico (2023).

Mark A. Lause is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Cincinnati. His writings on labor, spiritualism, bohemianism, and radicalism in the Civil War period reflect a lifelong interest in movement history.

Walter J. Lear (deceased) was a public health official and writer about the US health Left from1875 to 1975. He created an archive on this subject at the Institute of Social Medicine and Community Health in Philadelphia.

Paul Le Blanc, professor emeritus of history at LaRoche University (Pittsburgh), is author and editor of multiple volumes on socialist and labor history, including: A Short History of the U.S. Working Class (2016); A Freedom Budget for All Americans (with Michael Yates) (2013); From Marx to Gramsci (1996); Leon Trotsky (2015); The Living Flame: The Revolutionary Passion of Rosa Luxemburg (2020); and the documentary trilogy (with Bryan Palmer and others), U.S. Trotskyism, 1928-1965: Emergence, Endurance, Resurgence (2018).

Arieh Lebowitz was an editor of Israel Horizons and held other positions with the publication. He is a founder and currently a board member of Partners for Progressive Israel. He is Executive Director of the Jewish Labor Committee.

Janet Lee, professor emeritus in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department at Oregon State University, served as co-editor of Advance Journal.

Richard E. Lee is professor emeritus of sociology and Director of the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton University. His research focuses on the long-term intellectual and disciplinary structures of knowledge formation in writings that range across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

Jerry Lembcke is the co-author with Bill Tattam of One Union in Wood: A Political History of The International Woodworkers of America (1984) and The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam (1998). He is an associate professor emeritus at College of the Holy Cross.

Warren Leming was co-director of Ed Asner, On Stage and Off (2019) and, with Hugh Iglarsh, a member of the Nelson Algren Committee. Both have been active for many decades on Chicago’s theater, critical, and media scene.

Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo, professor emerita of history at Saint Mary's College of California, is the author of Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community (1996), Daughters of Aquarius: Women of the Sixties Counterculture (2010), and coauthor of Competing Visions: A History of California (2005). Her teaching and research focus on grassroots movements for social change.

James Lerner (deceased) was a national director of the youth section of the American League against War and Fascism. In 1940 he served on the editorial staff of the UE News and until he retired in 1984.

John F. Levin is a playwright and the coauthor of The Great Divide (2004). He was Progressive Labor Party’s West Coast Student Organizer during the 1960s and co-editor of a collection of memoirs of student activists in PL and the Worker Student Alliance caucus.

Richard Levy was active in Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars in Boston, Ann Arbor and Hong Kong. He subsequently taught and did organizing in Boston Chinatown and then taught Chinese politics (among other things) at Salem State University for twenty-three years. He is now organizing locally and nationally with and through teachers’ unions around preserving and expanding public higher education as a public good.

Rose Lewis (deceased) was a frequent writer for the People’s Daily World.

Lucy R. Lippard is the author of twenty-five books on contemporary art, feminism, activist and multicultural art, cultural criticism and local history and archaeology. She is co-founder of several artists' organizations including Heresies, PAD/D, and Printed Matter. She has curated some fifty exhibitions, most in non-traditional venues. She published an illustrated autobiography, Stuff: Instead of a Memoir (2023).

George Lipsitz is Research Professor Emeritus of Black Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His publications include The Possessive Investment in Whiteness (1998), A Life in the Struggle (1988) and Rainbow at Midnight (1994). He has worked widely with community activists from New Orleans to Boyle Heights, Los Angeles.

Robin Lloyd is a filmmaker and writes for the magazine Toward Freedom. She is active in the peace and social justice movements in Burlington, Vermont.

Priscilla Long, a poet living in Seattle, Washington, is the author of Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America’s Bloody Coal Industry (1989) and many books of poetry.

Erik Loomis is a professor of history and director of graduate studies at the University of Rhode Island. He is the author of A History of America in Ten Strikes (2018), Empire of Timber: Labor Unions and the Pacific Northwest Forests (2016) and Out of Sight: The Long and Disturbing Story of Corporations Outsourcing Catastrophe (2015).

James Lorence (deceased) was a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Marathon County. He is the author Organizing the Unemployed: Community and Union Activists in the Industrial Heartland

Denise M. Lynn is a professor of history and director of Gender and Sexuality Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Southern Indiana. She is the author of Where is Juliet Stuart Poyntz?: Gender, Spycraft and Anti-Stalinism in the Early Cold War (2021). She serves as the vice-president of the Historians of American Communism.

Staughton Lynn (deceased) was a labor and peace activist, historian, and attorney. With Alice Lynd, he is the author of Moral Injury and Nonviolent Resistance: Breaking the Cycle of Violence in the Military and Behind Bars (2017).

Robert Macieski is an independent scholar.

Nancy MacLean is the William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University and the author of several award-winning books, most recently, of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America (2017), a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award in Current Affairs and the Lillian Smith Book Award.

Mark Maier is a professor emeritus of economics at Glendale Community College. He is the author of City Unions: Managing Discontent in New York City (1987).

Eric Mann was an ATM/LRS cadre from 1975 to 1984 and is now working on a movement history from 1964 to the present—In Search of the Revolution: The Journey of a Movement Organizer.

Patrick Manning is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of World History emeritus, University of Pittsburgh, and Past President of the American Historical Association,

David Marc (deceased) was a scholar of popular culture and wrote Demographic Vistas: Television in American Culture (1984) and Comic Visions: Television Comedy and American Culture (1989).

Jerry Markowitz is a distinguished professor at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. He has written on the history of public health, occupational health and environmental health with David Rosner for more than thirty years. He misses his collaborator on this essay, Alex Rosner, who passed away several years ago, at the age of ninety-two.

Norman Markowitz has taught at Rutgers University from 1971, beginning at Livingston College. He teaches and writes history from a Marxist perspective and has published many articles and reviews in both academic and non-academic publications, especially Marxist and Communist journals, and edited collections and encyclopedias.

Charles H. Martin is professor emeritus of history at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Al McAloon (deceased) was a veteran of Irish American causes and taught at Bryant University.

Chris McAuley, a political scientist, is a professor emeritus in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and is the author of The Mind of Oliver C. Cox (2004) and of The Spirit vs. the Souls: Max Weber, W.E.B. Du Bois and the Politics of Scholarship (2019).

Charles McCollester received a PhD in philosophy from Louvain University in Belgium. He was a machinist and chief steward of UE Local 610 at Union Switch & Signal, then a professor of international labor relations and director of the Pennsylvania Center for the Study of Labor Relations at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He is a founder of the Battle of Homestead Foundation.

Iain McIntyre is a Melbourne based historian and community radio producer. He is a regular contributor to the social movement resource repository commonslibrary.org Recent books include Sticking It to the Man: Revolution and Counterculture in Pulp and Popular Fiction, 1950 to 1980 (2019) and On the Fly! Hobo Literature and Songs, 1879–1941 (2018).

Elizabeth McKillen is a professor emerita of history at the University of Maine. She wrote Making the World Safe for Workers: Labor, the Left, and Wilsonian Internationalism (2013).

Michael Meeropol is a professor emeritus at Western New England University. He is editor of The Rosenberg Letters (1994) and the author of Surrender: How the Clinton Administration Completed the Reagan Revolution (2000).

Cody R. Melcher is a faculty member of the department of sociology at Loyola University, New Orleans. His research examines the intersection of class and race. He has published in Critical Sociology and other journals.

Joanne Pope Melish is an associate professor emerita of history at the University of Kentucky, where she also directed the American Studies Program and co-directed the Africana Studies Initiative for several years. She received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University. She is the author of Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and “Race” in New England, 1780-1860 (1998) and many essays on the history and teaching of race and slavery in the early republic.

Timothy Messer-Kruse is a professor of ethnic studies at Bowling Green State University who specializes in the history of race and class, critical race theory, and subaltern American culture. In addition to several other books, he is the author of Slavery’s Fugitives and the Making of the Constitution of the United States (2024).

Gerald Meyer (deceased) was a professor emeritus in social and behavior science at Hostos Community College and a founding member of the faculty. He is the author of Vito Marcantonio: Radical Politician, 1902-1954 (1989).

E. Ethelbert Miller is a writer and literary activist living in Washington, DC.

James E. Miller is a professor of politics and liberal studies at the New School for Social Research and the author of several works on radical democracy, including Can Democracy Work? A Short History of a Radical Idea from Ancient Athens to Our World (2018).

John Miller is a professor of economics, emeritus, at Wheaton College. He works with Dollars & Sense and United for a Fair Economy. He also actively supports bikes as an alternative form of transportation and is member of the Boston-based Bikes Not Bombs group.

Sally M. Miller (deceased) was a professor of history at the University of the Pacific and the author or editor of many books and articles on American radical history.

Nathaniel Mills is an associate professor of English at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He is the author of Ragged Revolutionaries: The Lumpenproletariat and African American Marxism in Depression-Era Literature (2017).

Judith Mirkinson is a human rights worker specializing in gender and its relationship to militarization and violence. She was a founder of Prairie Fire Organizing Committee and on the staff of its journal Breakthrough. She has written numerous articles and reports, most recently on Haiti and on the “comfort women” (women and girls sexually enslaved by Japan during World War II).

Paul C. Mishler (deceased) was an associate professor of labor studies at Indiana University and received his PhD in US history in 1988. His book, Raising Reds: Young Pioneers, Radical Summer Camps and Communist Political Culture (1999) is one of the first historical examinations of the role of children and child-rearing in the radical movement in the United States.

Gregg L. Michel is a professor of history at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and author of Struggle for a Better South: The Southern Student Organizing Committee, 1964-1969 (2004).

Scott Molloy is a professor emeritus of labor and industrial relations at the University of Rhode Island. He is the author of Irish Titan, Irish Toilers, Joseph Banigan and 19th Century New England Labor (2008) and Trolley Wars, Streetcar Workers on the Line (1996) about streetcar workers during the Rhode Island Transit Strike of 1902.

Douglas Monroy is a professor emeritus of history at The Colorado College. He is the author of The Borders Within: Encounters between Mexico and the US (2008).

Alan W. Moore has written on artists' groups in New York City and squatting movements in Europe. He lives in Madrid. He is the author of Art Worker: Doing Time in the New York Art world (2022)

Joshua Morris grew up in Southern California and studied history at UC-Santa Barbara, California State University-Pomona, and Wayne State University. He writes and researches on new methodological interpretations of social history. He is the author of The Many Worlds of American Communism (2022).

S. Ani Mukherji is an associate professor of American Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York.

Bill V. Mullen is a professor emeritus of American studies at Purdue University. He is the author of James Baldwin: Living in Fire (2019); UnAmerican: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Century of World Revolution (2015); Afro-Orientalism (2004) and Popular Fronts: Chicago and African-American Cultural Politics, 1935-1946 (1999), and We Charge Genocide!:American Fascism and the Rule of Law (2024). He is co-editor, with Christopher Vials, of The U.S. Anti-fascism Reader (2020).

Teresa Murphy is a professor of American studies and deputy provost of academic affairs at George Washington University and the author of Ten Hours’ Labor: Religion, Reform, and Gender in Early New England (1992) and Citizenship and the Origins of Women’s History in the United States (2013).

Gary Murrell is the author of The Most Dangerous Communist in the United States: A Biography of Herbert Aptheker (2015). He is a professor emeritus of history at Grays Harbor College in Aberdeen, Washington.

Michael Gene Myerson is an author and lifelong activist for civil rights, peace, and labor rights. He lives in the Hudson Valley, New York.

Mark D. Naison is a professor of history and African American studies at Fordham University and is the Founder and Director of the Bronx African American History Project, one of the largest community-based oral history projects in the nation. He has written seven books and several hundred articles.

Gary Nash (deceased) was a professor emeritus at UCLA, where he taught US history since 1966. He wrote many books on Early and Revolutionary America and was an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He served as president of the Organization of American History in 1994-1995.

Al Neal is a writer, documentary photographer, and award-winning journalist from St. Louis, Missouri. His work focuses on labor and politics.

Bruce Nelson (deceased) was a professor emeritus of history at Dartmouth College. A noted labor historian, he is the author of Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality (2000). He was active in the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

John Nichols, the executive editor The Nation, is a political journalist and commentator who lives in Madison, Wisconsin. Among his many books is The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party: The Enduring Legacy of Henry Wallace's Anti-Fascist, Anti-Racist Politics (2020). With Bernie Sanders, he wrote It’s OK to Be Angry about Capitalism (2023), which became a New York Times bestseller.

Richard Nickson (deceased), a professor of English literature at William Paterson University of New Jersey, is the author of Staves: A Book of Songs (1977) and Philip Freneau: Poet of the Revolution (1981).

David Nugent is a specialist in Latin American studies and a professor of anthropology at Emory University.

Jim O'Brien has been involved in a variety of left-historian activities since graduate school in the 1960s, including most recently Historians for Peace and Democracy (formerly Historians Against the War).

Christopher A. Olewicz holds a PhD in American history from the University of Sheffield. He directs Principle 5: Yorkshire Co-operative Research Center in Sheffield, founded in 2013 and dedicated to educating the public about the cooperation movement.

Susan Gushee O’Malley is a professor emerita of English and liberal studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. She has served as an editor of the Radical Teacher.

Martin Oppenheimer is a professor emeritus of sociology, Rutgers University. He was an active participant in sociology's Left in the 1970s and continues to write for several socialist publications.

Leslie F Orear (deceased) served as president of the Illinois Labor History Society and edited The Packinghouse Worker, national organ of the United Packinghouse, Food and Allies Workers, from 1953 to 1968.

Elizabeth A. Osborne is a professor in theatre studies at Florida State University. She has written numerous articles and chapters, as well as Staging the People: Community and Identity in the Federal Theatre Project (2011). Her current research examines performances of history and their influence over cultural memory.

Fraser M. Ottanelli, professor of history at the University of South Florida, has authored and co-authored several books, articles and essays on radical movements, ethnic history and memory studies.

Nell Irwin Painter is the Edwards Professor of American History Emerita at Princeton University and a noted historian of the American South and race relations. She enjoys a second career as an artist.

David Paskin retired as the chief negotiator for District Council 37, AFSCME, New York City’s largest public employee union.

Zack Pattin is a longshoreman in Tacoma, Washington, and a member of the ILWU.

Tony Pecinovsky is the author of: W. Alphaeus Hunton, Black Liberation, and the Daily Worker, 1944-1946 (2021) and Let Them Tremble: Biographical Interventions Marking 100 Years of the Communist Party, USA (2020); he is also editor of the collection Faith in The Masses: Essays Celebrating 100 Years of the Communist Party, USA (2020). He lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri.

David Peck (deceased) was a professor of English and American studies at California State University, Long Beach, and the co-compiler of Guide to Marxist Literary Criticism (1980).

David Peerla is a political advisor to a number of Indigenous Nations in James Bay Treaty No. 9, Ontario, Canada; and a founding editor of Capitalism Nature Socialism. He graduated with a PhD in sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Harvey Pekar (deceased), a renowned comic publisher and scriptwriter, is best known as creator of American Splendor comics. He reviewed widely on jazz before his years as a comics producer and wrote widely on US and Russian Novelists.

Pamela E. Pennock is a professor of history at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, where she teaches Arab American studies. She is the author of The Rise of the Arab American Left (2017).

William Eric Perkins (deceased) worked with the Black Liberation Network. He published extensively on Black radicalism and hip hop culture and rap music.

Lorraine Perlman continues to publish and distribute Black & Red Books. The imprint dates from 1969 when she, Fredy Perlman and others established the Detroit Printing Co-op, a worker-run collective that printed Radical America, anarchist histories of the Russian Revolution, SDS literature, the Wobbly song book, some Situationist texts and works by local and distant radicals.

Nunzio Pernicone (deceased), son of Sicilian immigrants and a leading scholar of Italian anarchism, taught history at Drexel University and did extensive research for a biography of Carlo Tresca.

Jeffrey B. Perry (deceased) worked in the labor movement for more than thirty years as a rank-and-file-activist, officer, and editor. As an independent scholar, he authored a two-volume biography of Hubert Harrison, edited Theodore W. Allen’s two-volume The Invention of the White Race (1975), and placed Harrison’s Papers at Columbia and Allen’s Papers at U-Mass, Amherst.

Christopher Phelps teaches in the American and Canadian Studies Program at the University of Nottingham. He edited Marxism and America: New Appraisals (2021).

Maxine Phillips is a volunteer editor of Democratic Left and a co-editor of religioussocialism.org. She is also the retired executive editor of Dissent and a former national director of DSA.

Andy Piascik is a long-time activist and award-winning writer whose work is regularly published in CounterPunch, Z and other publications and websites.

Victor Pickard is the author of Democracy without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society (2019) and coauthor of After Net Neutrality: A New Deal for the Digital Age (2019). He is a professor in the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.

John Pietaro is a writer, poet, spoken word artist, musician, columnist/critic. He is the "NYC Jazz Record" curator and director of the Dissident Arts Festival.

Carl Pinkston is a community organizer, strategist and movement building trainer. He is the Operation Director for the Black Parallel School Board. He is a key strategic partner and founder of the Central Valley Movement Building and Dignity in School Campaign California.

George Pirinsky (deceased), who immigrated to the United States in 1923, became a leader in the Macedonian American left. A noted speaker and organizer, he came to the attention of the FBI and various right-wing groups.

Tony Platt is a Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law & Society, University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of thirteen books, including Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States (2019) and The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley (2023).

Frederik Pohl (deceased) was the author of the science fiction classic The Space Merchants (1953). His science fiction work has been translated into forty languages, adapted for film, and used for the basis for video games. He also wrote on the environment.

Carol Jean Poore is a professor emerita of German studies at Brown University. She researches the links among literature and history, working-class and socialist culture, drama, and disability studies.

Eric Porter is a professor in the American Studies and specializes in critical race and ethnic studies at the University of California-Santa Cruz.

Eddy Portnoy is a senior researcher at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and author of Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press (2017).

Margaret Power is a professor emerita of Latin American and women’s history at the Illinois Institute of Technology. A former member of Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, she has authored or co-authored books, articles, and chapters on right-wing women, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; and the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. She is the author of Solidarity Across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party vs. U.S. Colonialism (2023).

Louis Proyect (deceased) moderated the Marxism list (https://groups.io/g/marxmail), wrote for CounterPunch, and blogged as the Unrepentant Marxist (louisproyect.org). His film reviews appear on Rotten Tomatoes.

George E. Pozzetta (deceased) was a researcher who focused on the themes of immigration and ethnicity in American life, particularly as they involved Italians.

Albert Prago (deceased), a veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, was a history professor and writer.

Ruth F. Prago (deceased), a veteran political activist and social worker, was a staff member of the Oral History of the American Left, Tamiment Library, New York University.

Richard Quinney is part of the movement in sociology and criminology that created a Marxist critique of crime, law, and criminal justice. He is a professor emeritus of sociology at Northern Illinois University and has also had professorships at the University of Kentucky and New York University. He is the author of The Social Reality of Crime (1970) Critique of Legal Order (1973), Bearing Witness to Crime and Social Justice (2000), and Class, State, and Crime (1977).

Peter Rachleff is the co-founder in 2013 of the East Side Freedom Library in St. Paul, Minnesota. He taught history at Macalester College from 1982-2012, and his publications include Black Labor in Richmond, Virginia, 1865-1890 (1989), Hard-Pressed in the Heartland: the Hormel Strike and the Future of the Labor Movement (1993); Starving Amidst Too Much and other IWW Writings on the Food Industry (2005).

Thaddeus Casmir Radzialowski (deceased), a Polish American historian, taught history at St. Mary’s College of Ave Maria University in Detroit.

Gabriel Raeburn is a senior research fellow at the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program. He has a Ph.D in religious studies from the University of Pennsylvania. His scholarship focuses on the intersection of religion and politics.

Edward C. Rafferty, who received his doctorate in history from Brown University, is the author of Apostle of Human Progress: Lester Frank Ward and American Political Thought, 1841-1913 (2003).

Arnold Rampersad is the Sara Hart Kimball Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at Stanford University. His books include biographies of W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, and Ralph Ellison.

Jonah Raskin holds a PhD from the University of Manchester in England. He has taught in the United States and in Belgium and lectured widely, from France to India and Italy. He writes for CounterPunch and elsewhere.

Dolly E. Rauh, a librarian at the Salt Lake City Public Library, conducted extensive research on Mike Quinn and the San Francisco Left.

Marcus Rediker is Distinguished Professor Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh. His books, all histories from below, have won numerous prizes and been translated into many languages.

Edward Remus is an associate professor and a social sciences librarian at Northeastern Illinois University. His book reviews have appeared in Choice Reviews and his public interviews have appeared in the Platypus Review.

Sid Resnick (deceased) was a veteran political and labor activist and translator of Yiddish,

William Reuben (deceased) was a national public relations director of the American Civil Liberties Union. He wrote The Atomic Spy Hoax (1955) and many articles about the Rosenberg Case.

Doug Reynolds served as a historian with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Robert Dwight Reynolds, Jr. (deceased) served as an archivist at the George Meany Memorial Archives, which has been transferred to the University of Maryland libraries. He also served as an editor of Labor’s Heritage, which folded in 2004.

Edward Rice-Maximin (deceased) was a French history specialist and author of Accommodation and Resistance: The French Left, Indochina and the Cold War, 1945-54 (1986).

Paul Richards was born in 1944 in San Francisco, the second son of Harvey Richards and Hodee Waldstein. Raised as a red diaper baby, he received his PhD in History in 1978 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he was an editor of the SDS journal Radical America. A retired carpenter, he is now the owner of Estuary Press (https://estuarypress.com) and publisher of the Harvey Richards Media Archive.

David John Riehle (deceased) worked as a railroad brakeman and later an engineer and was a member of the United Transportation Union in Minneapolis. A labor historian, he interviewed many of the participants in the 1934 Teamster Strike. He donated his research materials to the Minnesota Historical Society.

Leonard Rifas participated in the underground comix movement as a cartoonist, editor and publisher. He has published widely on comics, including Korean War Comic Books (2021).

Keith Riley holds a PhD in history from Temple University, where he wrote a dissertation on the international solidarity politics of US City Councils during the 1970s and 1980s. He joined the faculty at Rutgers University-Camden.

Nancy L. Roberts is professor emerita in the Journalism Program and Communication Department at the University at Albany, SUNY. Much of her work focuses on the history of alternative periodicals.

Nancy Ruth Roberts (deceased), a Trotskyist veteran of the late 1950s and early 1960s, wrote poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. She taught at Medgar Evers College, City University of New York. She also published under the name Nora R. Wainer.

Paul Robeson, Jr. (deceased), aspired to keep alive the memory and legacy of her father, wrote widely on the Soviet Union.

Amaury Rodríguez is a historian and translator originally from the Dominican Republic. He is co-editor with Raj Chetty of Dominican Black Studies (2015), a special issue of The Black Scholar journal.

David R. Roediger is the author of The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History (2020). He teaches in the American Studies and African American Studies programs at the University of Kansas. He is a long-time activist in working-class and anti-racist movements and participant in surrealist initiatives.

Franklin Rosemont (deceased) edited the magazine Arsenal/Surrealist Subversion and co-edited The Haymarket Scrapbook (1986). He also edited and introduced works by surrealist Andre Breton, dancer Isadora Duncan, Industrial Workers of the World humorist T-Bone Slim., and utopian Edward Bellamy.

Penelope Rosemont was welcomed by André Breton into the Paris Surrealist Group in 1966. She organized a Surrealist Group in Chicago, worked at the SDS national office in 1968, and collaborated with Paul Buhle on Radical America and other projects. Her works include Surrealist Women: An International Anthology (1998); Surrealist Experiences, 1001 Dawns, 221 Midnights (1999) and Surrealism: Inside the Magnetic Fields (2019)

Ruth Rosen is a professor emerita of history, University of California, Davis. She is the author of The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America (2000, 2006).

Robert A. Rosenstone, professor emeritus of history at the California Institute of Technology, has published books of history, biography, criticism, and fiction. His award-winning Romantic Revolutionary, A Biography of John Reed (1975) has been translated into several languages. Rosenstone served for seven years as Historical Consultant on the film Reds (1982), which won three Academy Awards.

Mel Rosenthal (deceased) taught at Metro Center of Empire State College, State University of New York, and was known for his socially-oriented photography.

Rob Rosenthal is the John E. Andrus Professor of Sociology emeritus and past provost at Wesleyan University. He is the author of Homeless in Paradise (1994) co-author of Playing for Change (2011), co-editor of Pete Seeger in His Own Words (2012). His band, The Fuse, recorded his rock opera Seattle 1919.

Susan Rosenthal, a physician, is a socialist activist and author who blogs at https://susanrosenthal.com/

Alex Rosner (deceased) was a former stuff member and manager of the Hungarian American newspaper Magyar Szo.

Bob Rossi is a labor activist in Oregon. He hosts a labor radio show in Oregon's Mid-Willamette Valley. He is also working on a social history of Colorado coal mining communities in the 1920s and an account of the 1927-1928 Colorado mine workers' strike.

Steve Rossignol is a retired member of IBEW Local 520 in Austin, Texas. A long-time organizer for the Socialist Party USA, he has served as the archivist for the organization and is currently writing about and researching the history of the socialist movement in the state of Texas. He has written several articles on the subject and continues to compile material for a book length work.

Steve Rosswurm is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at Lake Forest College.

Gary Roth is the author of The Educated Underclass: Students and the Promise of Social Mobility (2019) and Marxism in a Lost Century: A Biography of Paul Mattick (2015). He ist he editor of Paul Mattick: Selected Texts (2025)

Robert Roth is an educator and activist. During his time as a member of Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, he worked in solidarity with liberation movements in Central America and helped found the Haiti Action Committee

Dawn L. Rothe is a professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida Atlantic University. She is the coauthor of The Violence of Neoliberalism (2019) and Explorations in Critical Criminology (2019).

Rachel Lee Rubin teaches American studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the author of Creative Activism: Conversations on Music, Film, Literature and Other Radical Arts (2018).

Annette Teta Rubinstein (deceased), political activist, teacher, and editor, was a prolific writer. Two of her most important books are The Great Tradition in English Literature: From Shakespeare to Shaw (1953) and American Literature: Root and Flower (2011).

Allen Ruff, historian and activist based in Madison, Wisconsin, is the author of We Called Each Other Comrade: Charles H Kerr & Company, Radical Publishers (1997).

Vicki Lynn Ruiz, Distinguished Professor Emerita in History and Chicano/Latino Studies at Unviersity of California, Irving, is the author of Cannery Women, Cannery Lives (1987) and From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America (2008) among other works. She is past president of the American Historical Association and Organization of American Historians. In 2015, President Barak Obama awarded her the National Humanities Medal.

Fran Quigley directs the Health and Human Rights Clinic at Indiana University McKinney School of Law, is an active member of the DSA Religion and Socialism Working Group and is the author of Religious Socialism: Faith in Action for a Better World (2021) and Lessons From Eviction Court: How We Can Solve the Housing Crisis (2025).

Loubna Qutami is an assistant professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Qutami is a co-founder of the Palestinian Youth Movement and the former executive director of the Arab Cultural and Community Center of San Francisco.

Kirkpatrick Sale has written many books, including SDS (1973), Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy (1990); Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War Against the Industrial Revolution (1995), and No More Mushrooms: Thoughts about Life Without Government (2021).

Sal Salerno, a sociologist, retired from teaching and practices Traditional Chinese Medicine in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

John B. Salter, Jr. (deceased), was an organizer for more than thirty years and served as chair of the Indian Studies program at the University of North Dakota.

Elissa J. Sampson is a research associate and lecturer in the Jewish Studies Program at Cornell University. She is the author of Fellow Travelers: From Popular Front to Cold War: Selections from the ILR School Catherwood Library Archives of the Yiddish Immigrant Left (on-line).

Gloria Garrett Samson (deceased) taught labor history for the Rochester extension of the Cornell University Labor Relations School and American history at several upstate New York colleges. She wrote The American Fund for Public Serve: Charles Garland and Radical Philanthropy 1922-1941 (1996).

Margaret Sandburg (deceased) edited The Poet and the Dream Girl: The Love Letters of Lilian Steichen & Carl Sandburg (1987) and a volume of her father’s poetry, Breathing Tokens (1978).

Edward Sanders, a former member of the Fugs, has been a political activist and a poet for more than sixty years.

E. San Juan, Jr., professor emeritus of English, comparative literature and ethnic studies, was chair of the Department of Comparative American Cultures, Washington State University. He was previously fellow of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University, and visiting professor of English at the University of the Philippines. He ist he author of U.S. Imperialism and Revolution in the Philippines (2007), In the Wake of Terror (2007).

Quincy Saul is a writer, musician, and co-founder of Ecosocialist Horizons.

Joel Saxe, a filmmaker specializing in historical documentaries, is a lecturer in the Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Morris U. Schappes (deceased) was the editor of Jewish Currents for four decades.

Joel Schecther, professor emeritus of theatre and dance at San Francisco State University, is the author of books titled Durov's Pig (1985), Eighteenth-Century Brechtians (2016), The Pickle Clowns (2001), Messiahs of 1933 (2008), Satire (2021).

Sigrid Schmalzer is a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and member of the Massachusetts Society of Professors, the union representing faculty and librarians. She is the author of Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China (2016).

Dorothee Schneider, a specialist in labor and immigration history, is a professor emerita in history at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she taught for more than twenty years. She is the author of Crossing Borders: Migration and Citizenship in the Twentieth Century United States (2011).

Ellen Schrecker is a professor emerita of history at Yeshiva and the author of several books about McCarthyism.

Carlos A. Schwantes is the author of The Pacific Northwest: An Interpretive History, revised edition (2014) and a professor of history at the University of Missouri, St. Louis.

Derek Seidman received his PhD in history from Brown University in 2010 and has published several articles, reviews, and interviews on labor history and Vietnam War-era US soldier protest. He has taught at Brown University, Trinity College, and D'Youville College, and he currently works as a research analyst with the Public Accountability Initiative & LittleSis, a nonprofit corporate watchdog group.

Sarah J. Seidman, PhD, is the Puffin Foundation Curator of Social Activism at the Museum of the City of New York.

Mark Selden is a senior research associate in the East Asia Program at Cornell University and editor of the online Asia-Pacific Journal apjjf/org. His latest book is Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn and the Lives of Chinese Workers (2020), coauthored with Jenny Chan and Pun Ngai.

William Sennett (deceased) was the publisher and general manager of the Chicago Star and the publisher of In These Times.

Ralph E. Shaffer is a professor emeritus of US history at Cal Poly Pomona.

Robert Shaffer is a professor emeritus of history at Shippensburg University. He previously worked at the Tamiment Library/Wagner Labor Archives and as a social studies teacher at Midwood High School in Brooklyn.

Herbert Shapiro (deceased), historian of African American history and a civil rights activist, was a professor at the University of Cincinnati from 1966 to 2001. His major publication is White Violence and Black Response: From Reconstruction to Montgomery (1988)

Linn Shapiro writes about the politics, history, and culture of the Left in the Americas, from Brooklyn, New York, to Santiago, Chile.

Steve Sherman is the editor of A Scott Nearing Reader (1989).

Francis Shor is a professor emeritus of history at Wayne State University. He is the author of four non-fiction books, the most recent being Weaponized Whiteness: The Constructions and Deconstructions of White Identity Politics (2020), and a novel, Passages of Rebellion (2020). In addition to his academic work, he has been a long-time peace and justice activist. He also wrote Peace Advocacy in the Shadow of War (2024).

Elliott Shore, librarian, serves on the Council on Library and Information Resources and co-dean of the Leading Change Institute.

Rachel Shteir is head of dramaturgy in the Theatre School of DePaul University. She is the author of The Untold History of the Girlie Show (2004), Gypsy: the Art of the Tease (2009), The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting (2011), and Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disrupter (2023).

Paul N. Siegel (deceased) was a professor at Long Island University and the author of The Meek and the Militant (1987) and Revolution and the Twentieth-Century Novel (1979) and other books.

John Sillito (deceased) retired as professor emeritus at Weber State University, Ogden, Utah. He conducted a long-term study of the Left in twentieth-century Utah.

Marc Silberman is a professor emeritus of German at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he focused his research and teaching on German literature, film, and theater of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He edited the Brecht Yearbook in the 1990s and curates the website and Facebook page of the International Brecht Society.

Sam Sills is a award-winning documentary filmmaker and video producer for New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services.

David Simmons is a retired labor activist and active theater director living in Madison, Wisconsin.

Victor Sinadinoski is the former City Manager for the City of Harbor Springs, Michigan. He holds a Juris Doctor and Master’s degree from Vermont Law School and a Bachelor's degree in anthropology from the University of Michigan. He has authored several books on the history of Macedonian Americans and early twentieth-century Macedonia.

Alan J. Singer is a professor emeritus of teaching, learning, and technology at Hofstra University.

Nikhil Pal Singh is a professor of social and cultural analysis and history at New York University and Faculty Director of New York University’s Prison Education Program.

Nancy Sinkoff is the Academic Director of the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life and professor of Jewish studies and history at Rutgers University.

Kathryn Kish Sklar is distinguished professor emerita of history at Binghamton University, SUNY. She is the author of Florence Kelley and the Nation’s Work (1995).

James Smethurst teaches Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of Behold the Land: A History of the Black Arts Movement in the South (2021).

Allen Smith is an independent historian interested in foreign policy dissent.

David Norman Smith, the author of Marx's Capital Illustrated (2014), is a sociology professor at the University of Kansas. His other publications include books and articles on charisma, genocide, class, authority fetishism, capital fetishism, and critical theory.

Michael Steven Smith is a retired attorney, a former board member at the Center for Constitutional Rights, and a member of the National Lawyers Guild. He is the cohost of the nationally broadcast radio show “Law And Disorder” and the author of the memoir Notebook of a Sixties Lawyer (1991), Who Killed Che? (2013), co-edited Imagine: Living in a Socialist America (2014) and Lawyers for the Left (2018).

Paul Chaat Smith, a Comanche writer and cultural critic, was a member of the American Indian Movement’s International Indian Treaty Council in the 1970s. He is an associate curator of the National Museum of the American Indian. He is the author of Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong (2009).

Amy R. Sohn is the author of The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, & Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age (2021) as well as five novels. Like the nineteenth-century free lover Ezra Heywood, she is a graduate of Brown University. She was born and raised in New York City.

Daniel Soyer is a professor of history at Fordham University, New York. He is the author of Left in the Center: The Liberal Party of New York and the Rise and Fall of Social Democracy (2021)

Henry Srebrnik is a professor of political science at the University of Prince Edward Island. He has publshed widely on the Jewish Communist movement.

Mary Stanton is a freelance writer based in New York City whose issue is white participation in the civil rights movement. She is the author of From Selma to Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo, (1998), nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; Freedom Walk: Mississippi or Bust (2003); Journey Toward Justice: Juliette Hampton Morgan and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (2006), The Hand of Esau: Montgomery’s Jewish Community and The 1956 Bus Boycott (2006) and Red/Black/White: The Alabama Communist Party, 1930-1950 (2019).

Evan Stark (deceased) was Marxist sociologist, a former student activist at the University of Wisconsin, a graduate of the anti-war and civil rights movements, and a forensic social worker whose book Coercive Control (2007) is the basis for a "liberty" crime of woman abuse in England and a number of other countries.

Michael Staub (deceased) was a professor of English and American studies at Baruch College CUNY. He is the author of The Mismeasure of Minds: Debating Race and Intelligence between Brown and The Bell Curve (2018) and Madness Is Civilization: When the Diagnosis was Social, 1948-1980 (2011).

Andrew Stewart is a journalist and filmmaker living in the Greater Providence area.

Norman Stockwell is the publisher of The Progressive magazine. For more than twenty years, he served as WORT community radio operations coordinatior in Madison, Wisconsin. He is co-editor of the book Rebel Reporting: John Ross Speaks to Independent Journalists (2015).

Taylor Stoehr (deceased) was a major figure in the world of Gestalt therapy and a professor of English and American literature. He served as Paul Goodman’s literary executor.

Margaret (Peg) Strobel is a professor emerita of gender and women’s studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she served as director of the program and of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. She has published in the areas of African women’s history; gender, race and empire; the development of the fields of women’s history and women’s studies, from a personal perspective; oral history; and public history.

Randi Storch, Distinguished Teaching Professor, teaches in the history department at SUNY Cortland. She is the author of Red Chicago: American Communism at Its Grassroots, 1928-1935 (2009) and Working Hard for the American Dream: Workers and Their Unions, World War I to the Present (2013).

Douglas Storm lives in Bloomington, Indiana. He produced and hosted an interview program, Interchange, for the community radio station WFHB. He has published a book of poetry, The Gulf of Folly (2016).

Sharon Hartman Strom is a retired professor of history and women's studies at the University of Rhode Island. She is the author of Beyond the Typewriter: Gender, Class and the Origins of Modern American Office Work (1992), and Political Woman: Florence Luscomb and the Legacy of Radical Reform (2001).

Jack Stuart (deceased) taught at California State University Long Beach.

Spencer Sunshine holds a PhD in Sociology; his 2013 dissertation is "Post-1960 U.S. Anarchism and Social Theory." Since then he has written extensively about the US Far Right. He is the co-editor of Exposing the Right and Fighting for Democracy: Celebrating Chip Berlet as Journalist and Scholar (2021) and the author of Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Seige (2024).

Abigail Susik is an associate professor of art history at Willamette University. Her books include Surrealist Sabotage and the War at Work (2021); and Radical Dreams: Surrealism, Counterculture, Resistance, and Surrealism and Film after 1945 (2021).

Tracy B. Strong (deceased), a philosopher and political theorist, taught political theory and philosophy at the University of Southampton, UK. He was also a distinguished professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego.

Mary Lou Suhor (deceased) was the editor of The Witness magazine, a national ecumenical journal reporting on social justice issues, published by the Episcopal Church Publishing Company.

Edmund B. Sullivan (deceased) was the director/curator of the Museum of American Political Life at the University of Hartford. His books include Collecting Political Americana (1980) and Images of American Radicalism (1998).

Dorothy Swanson (deceased) was the head of the Tamiment Library, New York University.

Malcolm Sylvers, retired professor of US history at the University of Venice, is the author of, among others, studies of Thomas Jefferson's political and social philosophy and the country's intellectual history in twenty-five portraits.

Amy Swerdlow (deceased) taught at Sarah Lawrence College and directed the women’s studies program. She wrote extensively on the US women’s peace movement.

Milton Tambor (deceased) was a former staff representative and labor educator with Michigan American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees. He published articles on social worker unionization, taught classes on workplace issues, and authored a memoir, A Democratic Socialist's Fifty Year Adventure (2021).

Richard Taskin is an attorney who lives and practices law in North Adams, Massachusetts.

Ryan Driskell Tate is the associate director of Global Energy Monitor. With a doctorate in environmental history from Rutgers University, he is a specialist on the coal industry.

Kenneth Teitelbaum is a former dean and professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, University of North Carolina Wilmington, and Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award from the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is the author most recently of Critical Issues in Democratic Schooling: Curriculum, Teaching, and Socio-Political Realities (2020).

Jeanne Theoharis, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, teaches at Brooklyn College of CUNY. A specialist on civil rights, she is the author of the award-winning The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (2013) and King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.‘s Life of Struggle Outside the South (2025).

Richard Walter Thomas a professor emeritus of history at Michigan State University, where he taught for thirty-eight years. He specializes in the history of race relations.

David Tilsen is a writer, Native Sovereignty and urban activist. In his seventies, he is a retired software engineer, husband of fifty years, father of three, grandfather of four, a politician, former Minneapolis School Board member, and he considers himself blessed. He is the grandson of Meridel LeSueur.

Barbara Tischler has taught history and American studies at Columbia University and served as director of admissions and financial aid at the School of General Studies. She is the author of An American Music: The Search for an American Musical Identity (1986) and editor of Sights on the Sixties (1992).

Ellen Wiley Todd is an emeritus Americanist specializing in art history, cultural studies, and women and gender studies at George Mason University. She is the author of The“New Woman” Revised: Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street (1993) and has published papers and made presentations on the Triangle Fire.

Michael Topp teaches history at the University of Texas, El Paso.

Carole Travis, daughter of Bob Travis, was on the staff of the 1967 New Politics Convention; 1968 Chicago Democratic Party Challenge; and 1968 Raskin/ Waskow New Party. She is one of three founders of the Sojourner Truth Organization and served for six years as President of UAW Local 719. She is a prisoner rights attorney associated with the Center for Constitutional Rights case challenging long-term solitary confinement in the California prison system.

John Trinkl is a writer and editor in San Francisco. He reported on the US Left for the National Guardian Newsweekly 1976-1985.

Mark Tushnet is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law emeritus, Harvard Law School, and former secretary, Conference on Critical Legal Studies. He is the author of Taking Back the Constitution: Activist Judges and the Next Age of American Law (2020).

Jean Y. Tussey (deceased) was a veteran union and social movement activist. She was a founding member of the Cleveland Labor History Society in 1982 and served as its president.

Micah Uetricht, the editor of Jacobin. He is the author of Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity (2014) and coauthor of Bigger Than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism (2020). He is a former associate editor and current contributing editor at In These Times.

Joseph Urgo, despite retiring, served in various interim administrative positions at the University of Akron.

Jeremy Varon is a professor of history at The New School. He is author of Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies (2018). He is also a longtime activist with Witness Against Torture and other groups.

Rudolph J. Vecoli (deceased) was a professor of history at the University of Minnesota and the director of the Immigration History Research Center.

Elisabetta Vezzosi is a professor of North American history at the University of Trieste. She served as the president of the American Studies Association of Italy and specializes in immigration and globalization history.

Lise Vogel is a professor of sociology (retired), Rider University. She is the author of Marxism and the Oppression of Women: Toward a Unitary Theory (1983, 2013), which has been translated widely. She is a veteran of the US civil rights and women’s liberation movements of the 1960s and daughter of a member of the Lincoln Brigade.

Paul Von Blum is a senior lecturer in Communication and African American Studies at UCLA and has taught at the University of California since 1968. He is the author of ten books and numerous articles spanning the humanities, social sciences, and the law. He is also a longtime civil rights and political activist.

Penny Von Eschen, William Kennan Jr Professor of American Studies, is a professor of history at the University of Virginia. She is a founding member of DSA. Her latest book is Paradoxes of Nostalgia, Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder Since 1989 (2022).

Dave Wagner (deceased) was a longtime journalist, sometime newspaper strike leader, and co-author of several books about the Hollywood Blacklist and American films, including Radical Hollywood (2002), Hide in Plain Sight (2003), and a biography of Abraham Lincoln Polonsky.

Alan Wald is the H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor Emeritus of English Literature and American Culture at the University of Michigan. He is an editor of Science & Society and Against the Current, as well as the author of eight books about literary radicalism.

Alan Wallach is the Ralph H. Wark Professor of Art and Art History and professor emeritus of American studies at the College of William and Mary. He was co-curator of Thomas Cole: Landscape into History (1994), author of Exhibiting Contradiction: Essays on the Art Museum in the United States (1998), and co-editor of the collection, Transatlantic Romanticism (2015).

Victor Wallis teaches history and politics at the Berklee College of Music and was for twenty years the editor of Socialism and Democracy. He is the author of Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism (2nd ed., 2021), Democracy Denied: Five Lectures on U.S. Politics (2019), and Socialist Practice: Histories and Theories (2020).

Mary Helen Washington is a Distinguished University Professor in the English Department at the University of Maryland, College Park, specializing in twentieth and twenty-first century African American literature. Her monograph, The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s (2014) received Honorable Mention in the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association. She has edited three collections of African American literature. She was president of the American Studies Association from 1996-1997. She is the author of Paule Marshall: A Writer’s Life (2026).

Devra Weber, author of Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Cotton, Farm Workers and the New Deal (1994), is interested in working-class Mexicans/Chicanos/indigenous Mexicans' involvement in nineteenth- and twentieth-century social movements of "Greater Mexico," the United States and Mexico. She is also a photographer.

Kathleen Weiler is a professor emerita of education at Tufts University. She has published widely on gender and education and the lives of women teachers. Her most recent book is Maria Baldwin’s Worlds (2019).

Alice Wexler is the author of Emma Goldman in America (1984) and Emma Goldman in Exile (1989).

Stephen J. Whitfield is a professor emeritus of American studies at Brandeis University. He has authored nine books, including Scott Nearing: Apostle of American Radicalism (1974); A Critical American: The Politics of Dwight Macdonald (1984), and Learning on the Left: Political Profiles of Brandeis University (2020).

Fred Whitehead is a native of Kansas, and editor/co-editor of Freethought on the American Frontier (1992), Collected Poems by Don Gordon (2004), and an anthology of contemporary verse, The Poetry of Resistance (2014).

Jon Wiener, co-author with Mike Davis of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties (2020), organized the SDS chapter at Princeton in 1965, wrote for the Old Mole in Cambridge 1968-69, and then taught US history at UC Irvine for forty years.

Pete Wilcox received his doctorate in history from the University of Hawai`i Manoa and has been active in the Industrial Workers of the World.

Alan Wieder taught for twenty-five years at the University of South Carolina. His books include Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid (2013) and Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, but Mostly Conversation (2016).

Sean Wilentz teaches at Princeton and is the author of numerous books, including The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (2005) and Bob Dylan in America (2010).

James H. (Jim) Williams is a veteran organizer and educator who lives in Tacoma, Washington.

Cal Winslow is Director of the Mendocino Institute. He is active in environmental and labor movements in northern California. His latest books are Radical Seattle, The General Strike of 1919 (2020) and E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left (2014).

Lawrence S. Wittner is a professor of history emeritus at the University at Albany, State University of New York

Tim Wohlforth (deceased) was a longtime Trotskyist and author of The Prophet’s Children (1994), a memoir of his years in that movement, 1953-1980.

Kent Worcester is the author, editor, or coeditor of a dozen books, including C.L.R. James: A Political Biography (1996), A Comics Studies Reader (2008), The Superhero Reader (2013), and Silent Agitators: Comic Art from the Pages of New Politics (2016).

Traci Yoder is the Director of Research and Education at the National Lawyers Guild.

Allen Young received a Master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1964. His career has included writing for the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post and Liberation New Service (LNS), as well as many gay periodicals. He has lived in rural North Central Massachusetts since 1973. His autobiography is Left, Gay & Green: A Writer's Life (2018).

James Young is a professor emeritus of history at Edinburgh University and also a longtime labor and socialist activist and advocate.

Omar Zahzah is a writer, poet, organizer, and scholar whose research focuses on literary representations of racialized policing and surveillance in Black and Arab American literature. He is the former Education and Advocacy Coordinator for Eyewitness Palestine and an organizer for Palestinian liberation. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles and teaches at San Francisco State University.

Kenyon Zimmer is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the author of Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America (2015), and has written extensively on the history of anarchism, syndicalism, and transnational radicalism.

Howard Zinn (deceased) wrote the classic A People’s History of the United States and other works.

Arthur Zipser (deceased) was a full-time aide to William Z. Foster during the McCarthy Era and the author of five books.

Dave Zirin is the sports editor at The Nation magazine. He is the author of eleven books on the politics of sports. He hosts The Edge of Sports Podcast.

Rebecca Zurier is an associate professor in the history of art and faculty associate in the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan. Her work on questions of urbanism, realism, politics and art includes the books Art for The Masses: A Radical Magazine and its Graphics (1985) and Picturing the City: Urban Vision and the Ashcan School (2006). Her current research looks into the history of Black Power murals in Detroit.