Publications and media

My C.V.

Dissertation

2026. “Birth of a Movement Party: An Interpretive Sociology of U.S. Democratic Socialism, 2015-2025.” University of Oregon, Department of Sociology.

Peer-reviewed articles

2026. “Reviving the Mass Organization for Social Movements? The Meaning of Membership in the Democratic Socialists of America.” Interface 15(1):109-134. https://www.interfacejournal.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Interface-15-1-full-PDF.pdf.

2025. “The Sociology of Socialism: A Review and Prospectus.” Critical Sociology 0(0):1-23. doi:10.1177/08969205251350399.

2021. “Critical Environmental Justice and the State: A Critique of Pellow.” Environmental Sociology 7(3):176–186. doi:10.1080/23251042.2021.1878575.

Editor-reviewed articles

2024. “Membership is the Left’s Secret Weapon: Lessons from the Democratic Socialists of America.” Marxist Sociology Blog (Marxist Section of the American Sociological Association), December 13. https://marxistsociology.org/2024/12/membership-is-the-lefts-secret-weapon-lessons-from-the-democratic-socialists-of-america/.

2016. “Amnesia on the ‘Lakeside’: Prospects for the Right to the City in South Chicago.” Creating Knowledge (DePaul University College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences) 9:78–86. https://las.depaul.edu/student-resources/undergraduate-research/Documents/2016Volume9.pdf.

Media

Interviewed for The Economist on the democratic socialist movement, 27 July 2026.

Appearance on Niskanen Center Science of Politics podcast, “Inside the Democratic Socialist Uprising,” with Matt Grossman, 22 July 2026.

Interviewed for The Nation, “Inside the Campaign to Unionize the University of Oregon”, by Porter Wheeler.10 February 2023.

Public writing

“Letter: Rattner on Chibber’s ‘Chauvinism’,” Cosmonaut, 10 November 2025.

“Let’s Bring Back DSA’s Activist Conference,” Socialist Call, 28 September 2025.

“Mass Action Gets the Goods: Organizing for Palestine at the University of Oregon,”YDSA Activist, 10 March 2025.

“Towards a Nationwide Student Union,”YDSA Activist, 2 March 2025.

“Victory for Student Workers and YDSA at the University of Oregon.”Democratic Left, 18 March 2024.

“Socialists Must Embed Themselves in the Student Labor Movement: Lessons from UO.” YDSA Activist, 13 March 2024, with Liam Monroe.

“Undergraduate Student Worker Unions and the Rank-and-File Strategy.” The Call, 1 March 2024, with Liam Monroe.

“Solidarity with Palestine at the University of Oregon.”The Call, 4 November 2023.

“Student Workers: Vote Yes for Your Union!”UO Daily Emerald, 5 October 2023.

“We’re All McAleveyites Now.”YDSA Activist, 26 September 2023.

“For R12: Which Way for the Student Worker Movement?”YDSA Activist, 30 July 2023.

“After Dobbs, We Have to Make the Court Political Again.” Eugene Weekly, 5 July 2022.

“Fair Contracts, Fair Tuition – Why Workers Stand with Students at UO.”UO Daily Emerald, 23 September 2019.

A large crowd of people gathered outdoors in a park with numerous tents, some with signs, during a protest or demonstration. The scene is surrounded by trees and appears to be in an urban area with buildings visible in the background.

The UO Popular University for Gaza, May 2024 (the thumbnail image on the Wikipedia article for “Gaza war protests at universities”).