Dr. Michael Gould-Wartofsky is an award-winning author, sociologist, and postdoctoral research scholar at Columbia University, who studies the far right, the radical left, and the politics of immigration through a critical realist lens.
Gould-Wartofsky is the author of The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement (Oxford University Press 2015) as well as the forthcoming books, No Sanctuary and Blood and Soil.
He has written for The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, The Forward, Gizmodo, Jacobin, Jewish Currents, Mother Jones, The Nation, and Newsweek, among others, and his research was recently featured in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Born and raised in New York City, he holds a BA in Government from Harvard and a PhD in Sociology from New York University. He is also an acclaimed photographer.
He welcomes speaking inquiries, along with questions, comments, and critique.