Andrew Anastasi

I am an historical sociologist, critical theorist, and the History and Political Economy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. My research has appeared in peer-reviewed academic journals, scholarly edited collections, and popular venues in multiple language. My current book project, The Other Anti-War Movement: The New Left in and against the War on Poverty (under contract with University of Minnesota Press) draws on original archival research to advance critical, social, and political theory. My first book, The Weapon of Organization (Common Notions Press, 2020), introduced Mario Tronti, one of Italy's most important postwar social and political theorists of capitalism and the workers' movement, to Anglophone audiences. I have worked in secondary and higher education for 14 years and have taught widely on social movements and social theory, politics and race, and community organizing and digital storytelling. I received my Ph.D. in Sociology and Critical Theory from The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), in 2022, and I have been a full-time visiting professor at Barnard College. I have also taught at Fordham University, Queens College (CUNY), and in public high schools across Washington, D.C., where I supported youth-led campaigns to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline.