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Corinealdi, Kaysha

  • Kaysha Corinealdi
  • Kaysha Corinealdi
  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Latino & Caribbean Studies and History
  • Degree: Ph.D., Yale University
  • Rutgers : At Rutgers since 2023
  • Specialty: African Diaspora History, Modern Latin American and Caribbean History, Black Feminisms, Central American Studies, Migration & Citizenship Studies
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RESEARCH INTERESTS

I specialize in the history of the African diaspora in the Americas with particular attention to Central America and the Caribbean as well as circum-Caribbean migration to the United States. I am the author of Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century (Duke University Press, 2022), which centers the activism of Afro-Caribbean migrants and their descendants as they navigated practices and policies of anti-Blackness, xenophobia, denationalization, and white supremacy in Panama and the United States. I have also published my writing in NACALA: Report on the Americas, Perspectivas Afro, Radical History Review, Public Books, the American Historical Review, Social Text, the Washington Post, The Funambulist, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, among other publications. I am currently working on three research projects: a series of essays on past and present day denationalization practices in the Americas; a speculative biography of Thelma King, a controversial political figure in twentieth century Panama; and a digital archive Black women electoral candidates in Central America.

At Rutgers I serve as a member of the Steering Committee for the Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies (RAICCS) (2025-2028) and in the 2025-2026 academic year coordinated a yearlong speaker series for LCS and RAICCS on the theme of “Undisciplined: Writing and Creating Otherwise in Latinx and Caribbean Studies.” Outside of Rutgers, I have served as secretary and chair of the Caribbean Studies Section of the Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) (2020-2022), as a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Caribbean Historians (ACH) (2026-2027), and am currently on the editorial boards of the University of North Carolina Press Latinx History Series, NACLA: Report on the Americas, and the Journal of Visual Culture. I am also a frequent collaborator with Panama-based museums and educational centers and an active member of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars (ACWWS), the Dark Room: Race and Visual Culture Seminar, the American Studies Association (ASA), and the Museums Association of the Caribbean (MAC).

I welcome emails from prospective graduate students interested in working with me in the fields of African/African Diaspora History, African American History, and Latin American and Caribbean History.

CLASSES TAUGHT

 History of the Caribbean Since 1898.

Global Diasporas in Caribbean History. 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century

Duke University Press, 2022

Books

  • Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022

Refereed Articles

  • "Realidades y percepciones sobre lo que se aprende acerca de la historia del Canal de Panamá.” Nyasha Warren, Nadia De León, Kaysha Corinealdi, Guillermina De Gracia, and Margie Muñoz. Investigación y Pensamiento Crítico, 14:2, 2026, 59-88
  • “Feminist Educators Against State Neglect.” Radical History Review 148, January 2024, 49-68
  • “Being Fully Human: Linda Smart Chubb and the Praxis of Black Feminist Internationalism.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 47:4, Summer 2022, 931-955
  • “A Section for Women: Journalism and Gendered Promises of Anti-Colonial Progress in Interwar Panama.” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, Issue 12, December 2018, 91-120
  • “Creating Transformative Education: Robert Beecher and Thinking Through Race and Empire from Panama to New York.” International Journal of Africana Studies, 18:2, Fall-Winter 2017, 83-103
  • “Envisioning Multiple Citizenships: West Indian Panamanians and Creating Community in the Canal Zone Neocolony.” The Global South, 6:2, Special Issue, Interoceanic Diasporas and the Panama Canal’s Centennial, Fall 2012, 87-106

Articles on Praxis & Pedagogy

  • “Activismos afrocaribeños en contra de la xenofobia: el caso panameño, 1940-1968.” Perspectivas Afro, Volume 4, Issue 1, October 2024, 10-21
  • “Making Global History Legible.” Part of AHR-Lab Issue “On Transnational and International History.” American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 1, March 2023, 264-269
  • “Essays from the Dark Room: Race and Visual Culture Studies Seminar.” With Sandy Alexandre, Kimberly Juanita Brown, and Eunsong Kim. Social Text 149, 39:4, December 2021, 55-73

Digital Humanities Work

  • Escuelas Afrocaribeñas en Panamá: Innovación y resiliencia comunitaria/ Afro-Caribbean Schools in Panama: Innovation and Community Resilienc. Nyasha Warren and Kaysha Corinealdi, 2026

Chapters in Edited Volumes

  • The Feminist Life of Felicia Santizo.” In Black Feminist Theories: Transnational Approaches, edited by Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, Carole Boyce Davies, Janell Hobson, Angela V. Nixon, and Christen A. Smith. Bloomsbury Academic, 2026
  • “Race.” In Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations, edited by Frank Costigliola and Barbara Keys. Cambridge University Press, 2025

Public Writing

  • “Denationalization and Historical Memory: The Panamanian Case,” The Funambulist 63, December 2025
  • “On Isthmian Knowing: Bodies, Archives, Futures.” With Jorge E. Cuéllar and Paul Joseph López Oro. North American Council on Latin America: Report on the Americas 57:2, Summer 2025
  • “Bringing Research Home: Self-Discovery and Self-Healing while Collecting Living Histories.” With Nyasha Warren. North American Council on Latin America: Report on the Americas 57:2, Summer 2025
  • “Where I Go: Seeing Panama City Through the Eyes of Elders.” Zócalo Public Square, October 16, 2023
  • “Panama in Black as an Offering: An Author’s Response.” AAIHS-Black Perspectives, June 2, 2023
  • "Jim Crow was Hemispheric. So was the Black Activism that Sought to Dismantle it.” Made by History Blog, Washington Post, February 18, 2022
  • “Thelma King and the Call for Revolution.” Public Books, Global Black History Section, January 5, 2022
  • “Dr. Carlos E. Russell and the Origins of Black Solidarity Day.” AAIHS-Black Perspectives, September 14, 2021

AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS

  • Rutgers Research Council Grant, 2025
  • Newhouse Center for the Humanities Fellow, Wellesley College, Fall 2023-Spring 2024
  • Honorable Mention, Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Book Award, Caribbean Studies Association for Panama in Black, 202
  • Afro-Latin American Research Institute (ALARI) Fellow, Hutchins Center for African and African American Studies, Harvard University Fall2019-Spring 2020
  • Institute for Citizens and Scholars, Career Enhancement Fellow, Fall 2019

Williamson, Robert

  • Robert Williamson
  • Robert Williamson
  • Hallgring Visiting Professor
  • Degree: Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2025)
  • Additional Degree(s): B.A., Rice University (2019)
  • Specialty: Medieval Europe: Culture, Gender, and Military History
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  • Office: 101-A Van Dyck Hall
  • Research Interests: Medieval Europe: Culture, Gender, and Military History

Research Interests

I am an historian of Medieval Europe with a particular emphasis on the later Middle Ages. My work primarily focuses on the late medieval martial aristocracy of England and France, including their participation in the Spanish, Italian, and Cypriot theaters of the Hundred Years War and later crusades. My research interests include narrative theory, military history, gender theory in premodern contexts, and, most of all, approaches to cultural history. I am especially interested in material culture (notably, armor and animals) and how objects appear in narratives to lend meaning to texts. My research engages with artifacts in the Royal Armouries, the Wallace Collection, and the Metropolitain Museum of Art, with alabaster tomb effigies in cathedral collections such as those of Tewkesbury and Bristol, and with codicological studies of manuscripts in the British Library and the BNF Richelieu.

I am currently at work on my first monograph, which studies the relationship between chivalric culture, knightly gender, and the material world. It traces the life cycle of medieval French and English men-at-arms from birth to death and beyond. I plan to investigate how narratives of all sorts – wrought in ink, gold-leaf, and stone – captured the agency of objects in moments of knightly self-fashioning. Ultimately this monograph seeks to question the notion of masculinity in “crisis,” and to contextualize conceptions of gender shared by arms-bearing aristocrats in the Hundred Years War, the Italian Wars, and the Wars of the Roses.

Inspired by historical texts and images, I also enjoy painting. A core goal in the classroom is to share my passion for art with my students, and we engage with all sorts of visual and material evidence.

Recent Presentations

“The End of Battle: Armor, Animals, and the Masculinity of Victory 1350-1425” SLU  Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Saint Louis, MO (Summer 2025)

“Beasts and Bascinets: Masculine Self Fashioning through Armor and Animals in Late Medieval Combat” International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK (Summer 2024)

Guest Lecture, “Martial Materiality, Masculinity, and the Expression of Knightly Identity 1350-1425” The O’Brien Conference on Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Rice           University, Houston, TX (Spring 2022)

 “A Versatile Steel Skin: The Representations and Roles of Armor in Late Fourteenth-Century Texts and Images” International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK (Summer 2021)

Recent Publications

            “Like a Hound Upon Its Quarry: Noble Animals as Elements of Knightly Material Culture ca.1350-1425” Comitatus 56, A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies,       UCLA (forthcoming Fall 2025)

Recent Painting

 Warwick Dog

Gyamfi, Bright

  • Bright Gyamfi
  • Bright Gyamfi
  • Assistant Professor of History
  • Degree: Ph.D., Northwestern University
  • Additional Degree(s): M.A., Northwestern University MSc, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford B.A., University of Notre Dame
  • Specialty: Africa, African Diaspora, and Economic Development
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  • Office: 007A

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My interest in history was sparked by an American Ghana-based elementary school teacher and fueled by watching Liberty’s Kids as a child living in North Carolina. After taking an undergraduate African history course, what had started as a mere spark developed into a strong passion, hence my decision to become a historian. Today, I am a scholar of West African and African Diaspora intellectual history, nationalism, Pan-Africanism, Black internationalism, and economic development. I write on African intellectuals who worked to transform and radicalize the study of Africa in academic and intellectual centers around the Atlantic. I have received research fellowships and grants from several organizations and institutions, including the National Endowment for Humanities, Social Science Research Council and the Fulbright-IIE. My work has appeared in the Journal of African American History, African Studies Review, Radical History Review, Africa is a Country, and The Conversation. I hold a BA in History (Honors) and Political Science from the University of Notre Dame, an MSc in African Studies from the University of Oxford, and a PhD in History from Northwestern University. Prior to joining Rutgers, he served on the faculty at the University of California, San Diego, and was a Presidential Fellow at Northwestern University.

My book manuscript, “Embers of Pan-Africanism: Nkrumahist Intellectuals and Decolonization 1960-1980,” examines Ghanaian intellectuals who worked to transform and radicalize the study of Africa and its diaspora in academic and intellectual centers around the Atlantic. Drawing on rich archival research and oral histories across West Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and the Americas, the book shows how exiled Ghanaian intellectuals helped reshape Black Studies, Pan-Africanism, and global anti-colonial thought. Rather than viewing Kwame Nkrumah’s overthrow as an end-point, the book presents the period as one of intellectual expansion, diasporic exchange, and institution-building. My project breaks down the barriers between Black Studies and African Studies by recovering the dynamic history that links the study of Africa to the study of the diaspora. Thus, it makes significant scholarly contributions and interventions to the literature on pan-Africanism, migration, decolonization, and Black internationalism. My research also places the intellectual impact of Africans at the heart of current narratives of transnational encounters and connections rather than submit to the dominant scholarly and public focus on Africans as merely economic refugees.

I am also actively engaged in public-facing work, including policy consulting, media interviews, public lectures, exhibitions, and documentary filmmaking.

I love basketball, soccer, and college football, and I also enjoy traveling for archival and oral research.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

 African Intellectual history, Africa Diaspora, African American history, Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Radicalism, Nationalism, Pan-Africanism, Black Internationalism, Economic Development, and Black Political Thought.

Fieldwork Sites: Ghana, Senegal, Trinidad & Tobago, Grenada, the United Kingdom, Suriname, Guyana, the United States, France, and Brazil.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“Uncovering Radical Histories: Anna Budu Arthur’s Everyday Politics of Decolonization and Transnational Solidarity,” Radical History Review, issue number 153 part of the collection on “Radical Histories of Decolonization.” (Forthcoming).

“The Africa-Diaspora Orbit: Anani Dzidzienyo’s Contributions to Black Studies and Black Liberation,” African Studies Review, 66, 2 (2023), 464-89. doi:10.1017/asr.2022.97. [top specialty journal for African Studies]

Akrofi, J., Angell, A. M., Gyamfi, B., Bodison, S. “Exploring Coloniality in Occupation-Based Education: Perspectives of Ghanaian Occupational Therapists,” Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 7, 4 (2023), 1-17.

“From Nkrumah’s Black Star to the African Diaspora: Ghanaian Intellectual Activists and the Development of Black Studies in the Americas,” Journal of African American History Special Issue on Reconceptualizing the History of Black Internationalism 106, 4 (2021), 682-705. [top specialty journal for African American History]

Book Reviews

“Jeffrey S. Ahlman. Living with Nkrumahism: Nation, State, and Pan-Africanism in Ghana.” African Studies Review 2021, 1-3. doi:10.1017/asr.2020.134.

Public Scholarship      

(with Kwasi Konadu) “Black Lives Matter: How far has the movement come?”  September 8, 2021. https://theconversation.com/black-lives-matter-how-far-has-the-movement-come-165492

“Pioneiros em Estudos dos Negros,” translated by Jose Luiz Pereira da Costa, March 10, 2021. http://www.dacostaex.net/bright.pdf

“Pioneers in Black Studies,” March 2, 2021. https://africasacountry.com/2021/03/pioneers-in-black-studies

“What Does it Mean to be a Black Scholar in 2020,” July 12, 2020. https://www.brightgyamfi.com/post/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-black-scholar-in-2020

“AfriSem Conference Addresses Decolonizing African Studies,” Program of African Studies News and Events, 30, 1 (2019), 4. 

AWARDS

External

• National Endowment for the Humanities, 2025.
• Faculty of California United in Scholarship, Manuscript Workshop, Berkeley, California, 2024.
• UCHRI Underrepresented Scholars Fellowship Award, 2024.
• Society of Fellows, Dartmouth College, finalist, 2022.
• The Edward A. Bouchet Honor Society, 2022.
• Fulbright Fellowship to Ghana, 2021.
• Social Science Research Council, Andrew Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship. Supported research trips to Grenada, Suriname, Senegal, and the United Kingdom, 2020.
• Ghana Studies Association’s Conference Paper Prize for Emerging Scholars for my paper titled “Ghanaian Intellectuals and the Struggle to Decenter African Studies,” Award received at the African Studies Association Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, 2019.
• Social Science Research Council, Dissertation Proposal Development Program, 2019.
• The Thomas J. McMahon IV Endowment for Excellence for the Pursuit of Scholarship, University of Oxford, 2016

Internal

• The Outstanding Faculty Award, Black Resource Center, University of California, San Diego, 2025
• Certificate of Appreciation, Eight College, University of California, San Diego, 2025.
o “This certificate is proudly presented to Professor Bright Gyamfi in recognition of their outstanding contributions as a distinguished staff/faculty member. Your dedication, support, and impact have left a meaningful mark on the student community.”
• Excellence in Teaching in African and African Diaspora Studies, African and African American Studies Research Center, University of California, San Diego, 2024.
• Presidential Fellowship, Northwestern University, 2022.
• Honorable Mention Distinction for the 2020-21 McBride Award, Northwestern University, 2021.

 SELECTED SERVICE

• Treasurer, Ghana Studies Association, 2025 – present
• Board of Directors, West African Research Association, 2024 – present.
• Board of Directors, the Ghana Oxford and Cambridge Society, 2024 – present
• Consultant, the Institute for People’s Enlightenment, 2023 – present
• Inaugural Book Review Editor, The Global Black Thought (Published by University of Pennsylvania Press), 2024 – 2025
• Board Member, African and African American Studies Research Center, University of California, San Diego, 2023-2025

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• African Studies Association, Lifetime Member
• West African Research Association, Lifetime Member
• Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora
• American History Association
• Ghana Studies Association
• African American Intellectual History
• Brazilian Studies Association

Alexander, Leslie M.

  • Leslie M. Alexander
  • Leslie M. Alexander
  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of History
  • Degree: Ph.D., Department of History, Cornell University
  • Additional Degree(s): M.A., Department of History, Cornell University B.A., Department of History, Stanford University
  • Specialty: African American History, African Diaspora History, Early American History
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  • Office: 307 Van Dyck Hall

 

Website: https://drlesliealexander.com

RESEARCH INTERESTS

I specialize in early African American and African Diaspora history, particularly the history of slavery, Black political and intellectual thought, and resistance movements. My research is dedicated to excavating the social, political, and cultural history of slavery and the people who fought against it. My past, current, and future projects are all driven by a common passionate intellectual curiosity; namely, how the legacy of slavery and Black activism have shaped the social, cultural, and political contours of the United States and the broader Atlantic World.

I am especially interested in the myriad ways that slavery and its afterlives have shaped (and continue to influence) the United States and the Atlantic World historically and contemporarily.

 PUBLICATIONS

Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States

University of Illinois Press, 2022

Ideas in Unexpected Places: Reimagining the Boundaries of Black Intellectual History Ideas in Unexpected Places: Reimagining the Boundaries of Black Intellectual History

Northwestern University Press, 2022

African or American?: Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784-1861 African or American?: Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784-1861

University of Illinois Press, 2008

 

Books

  •  Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States, Champaign and Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022.
  • Ideas in Unexpected Places: Reimagining the Boundaries of Black Intellectual History. Co-editor, Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, April 2022.
  • African or American?: Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784-1861. Champaign and Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. Awarded the National Council for Black Studies prize for Outstanding Scholarship in the Field of Africana Studies.

Articles and Book Chapters

  • “Fear” in The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, ed. Nikole Hannah Jones, One World, November 2021.
  • “Black Utopia: Haiti and Black Transnational Consciousness in the Early Nineteenth Century,” William and Mary Quarterly, April 2021.
  • “We Have Not Yet Forgiven Haiti For Being Black,” Black Perspectives, December 7, 2020.
  • “‘A United and Valiant People:’ Black Visions of Haiti in the Immediate Aftermath of Haitian Independence,” in Ideas in Unexpected Places: Reimagining Black Intellectual History, eds. Leslie Alexander, Brandon Byrd, and Russell Rickford, Northwestern University Press, April 2022.
  • “The Birth of a Nation is an Epic Fail,” The Nation, October 6, 2016.
  • “A Land of Promise: Emigration and Pennsylvania’s Black Elite in the Era of the Haitian Revolution” in The Civil War in Pennsylvania: The African American Experience. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Senator John Heinz History Center, 2013. Recipient of the 2014 American Association of State and Local History Award of Merit.
  • “A Pact With the Devil?: The United States and the Fate of Modern Haiti,” Origins e-History, online journal, February 2011.
  • “The Black Republic: The Influence of the Haitian Revolution on Black Political Consciousness, 1816-1862,” in African Americans and the Haitian Revolution: Selected Essays and Historical Documents, eds. Maurice Jackson and Jacqueline Bacon. Routledge, 2009. Republished in Haitian History: New Perspectives, ed., Alyssa Sepinwall. New York: Routledge Press, 2012.
  • “The New York City Draft Riot of 1863,” in The Encyclopedia of American Race Riots, eds. James Upton and Walter Rucker. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006.
  • “The Challenge of Race: Rethinking the Position of Black Women in the Field of Women’s History.”  Journal of Women’s History, volume 16, no. 4, December 2004.
  • Republished as: “Rethinking the Position of Black Women in American Women’s History” in Major Problems in American Women’s History, eds. Mary Beth Norton, Ruth M. Alexander, and Thomas Paterson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007.

AWARDS

  • Research Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University
  • Audre Lorde Humanities Activism Fellowship, Institute for Humanities Research
  • Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Arizona State University
  • Ford Foundation Senior Fellowship
  • Fellow, Leadership Academy, University of Oregon
  • Provost’s Senior Humanist Fellowship, Oregon Humanities Center
  • Award for Faculty Excellence, Black Student Association, The Ohio State University
  • Presidential Award for Service, National Council for Black Studies
  • Distinguished Faculty Mentor Award, given by OSU Outstanding Senior
  • Fire and Focus Award for Distinguished Teaching
  • National Council for Black Studies Award for Distinguished Scholarship
  • National Council for Black Studies Award for Outstanding Service
  • Arts and Humanities Diversity Enhancement Award
  • University Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching
  • University Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award
  • College of Humanities Diversity Enhancement Award
  • Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship
  • Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship

 SELECTED SERVICE

  •  Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora
    • Immediate Past President and Advisory Board member, 2019-present
    • President, 2015-2019
    • Vice President, 2013-2015
    • Executive Board Member, 2009-2019
  • Black Perspectives
    • Editorial Board
  • Institute for Humanities Research Advisory Board
    • Arizona State University, 2020-2022
  • Journal of African American History
    • Editorial Board
  • Montpelier Foundation
    • Board Member
  • National Council for Black Studies
    • Executive Board Member, 2010-present
  • University Senate, The Ohio State University, 2010-2016
  • University Senate Steering Committee, The Ohio State University, 2014-2016
  • Faculty Council, The Ohio State University, 2010-2016
    • Chair, 2013-2014

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Lifetime Member
  • Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora, Lifetime Member
  • Association of Black Women Historians, Lifetime Member
  • Association of Caribbean Historians
  • Caribbean Studies Association
  • Haitian Studies Association
  • National Council for Black Studies
  • Organization of American Historians
  • Society of Senior Ford Fellows

          

Bray, Mark

  • Mark Bray
  • Mark Bray
  • Assistant Teaching Professor
  • Degree: Ph.D., Rutgers University
  • Specialty: Modern Spain and the World, Global History, Radicalism
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  • Office: 002D Van Dyck Hall

Mark Bray is a historian of Modern Spain and the World, focusing on politics, human rights, and transnational history. He earned his BA in Philosophy with High Honors from Wesleyan University in 2005 and his PhD in History from Rutgers University in 2016.

He has published four books, including the national best-seller Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook (Melville House 2017), which is the first transnational history of postwar anti-fascism and has been translated into seven languages. His most recent book, The Anarchist Inquisition: Assassins, Activists, and Martyrs in Spain and France (Cornell 2022), explores groundbreaking transnational human rights campaigns that emerged in response to a brutal wave of repression unleashed by the Spanish state to quash anarchist activities at the turn of the twentieth century and is based on research in Spanish, Catalan, French, and Italian from twenty-four archives in Spain, France, England, the United States and the Netherlands. Bray is the co-editor and translator of Anarchist Education and the Modern School: A Francisco Ferrer Reader (PM Press 2018), the first definitive English-language collection of the works of early twentieth century Catalan pedagogue and revolutionary Francisco Ferrer. He is also the author of Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street (Zero 2013), a historically grounded, socio-political analysis of the Occupy Wall Street movement based on 192 interviews with organizers in NYC that has been translated into Spanish and French. He has presented his work in English and Spanish among public and scholarly audiences across North America, Latin America, and Europe, and has appeared on major national and international media outlets including Meet the Press, BBC World News, CNN International, PBS and many others to discuss his expertise on the history of anti-fascism, social movements, and European and American politics.

COURSES

  • The Spanish Civil War
  • History Workshop: Antifascism
  • History Seminar: Anarchism
  • History Seminar: Communism
  • SAS Honors Interdisciplinary Seminar: Occupy Wall Street
  • World History II
  • Human Rights
  • Modern Germany
  • Terrorism

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

The Anarchist Inquisition: Assassins, Activists, and Martyrs in Spain and France The Anarchist Inquisition: Assassins, Activists, and Martyrs in Spain and France

Cornell University Press, 2022

Anarchist Education and the Modern School: A Francisco Ferrer Reader Anarchist Education and the Modern School: A Francisco Ferrer Reader

PM Press, 2018

Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook

Melville House, 2017

Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street

Collective Ink, 2013

 

BOOKS

  • The Anarchist Inquisition: Assassins, Activists, and Martyrs in Spain and France (Cornell 2022)
  • Anarchist Education and the Modern School: A Francisco Ferrer Reader (PM Press 2018)
  • Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook (Melville House 2017)
  • Antifa: El manual antifascista (Capitán Swing 2018)
  • L’anti-fascisme: son passé, son present et son avenir (Lux Editeur 2018)
  • Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street (Zero 2013)
  • La traducción de la anarquía. El anarquismo en Occupy Wall Street (Volapük Ediciones 2015)
  • Occupons Wall Street. L’anarchisme d’Occupy Wall Street (Noir et Rouge Éditeur, 2014)

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

  • “Beyond and Against the State: Anarchist Contributions to Human Rights History and Theory,” Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, 10.3 (Winter 2019): 323-338
  • “Ricardo Flores Magón and the Anarchist Movement in Southern California” (with Yesenia Barragan), in East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte, Romeo Guzmán, Carribean Fragoza, Alex Sayf Cummings, Ryan Refts, eds. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2019)
  • “Horizontalism,” in Anarchism: A Conceptual Approach, Benjamin Franks, Nathan Jun, and Leonard Williams, eds. (London: Routledge, 2018)
  • “Confronting the Many Men in Suits: Rethinking the ‘Positive’ Coverage of Occupy Wall Street.” Critical Quarterly 54 (July 2012): 5-9

SELECT PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP

  • “Five myths about antifa,” Washington Post, September 11, 2020: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-myths/five-myths-about-antifa/2020/09/11/527071ac-f37b-11ea-bc45-e5d48ab44b9f_story.html
  • “Notes for Amitai Etzioni from an Antifa Historian,” Boston Review, November 29, 2017: http://bostonreview.net/forum/bray-notes-etzioni-antifa-historian
  • “Who are the antifa?” Washington Post, August 16, 2017: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/08/16/who-are-the-antifa/?utm_term=.3705e2d3971a

 

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