About MGW

Dr. Michael Gould-Wartofsky is an award-winning writer and a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Columbia University, whose work explores the nexus of race and class, power and inequality, states and social movements: from Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter, the migrant labor movement to the the rise of the far right. He is the author of The Occupiers (Oxford 2015) and the forthcoming (Anti)Fascism in America, and has written for The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Gizmodo, Jacobin, Jewish Currents, Mother Jones, The Nation, and Newsweek.  Born and raised in NYC, he holds a BA in Government from Harvard and a PhD in Sociology from NYU.