Dr. Michael Gould-Wartofsky is an award-winning writer, educator, and scholar who studies the sociology of social movements, the politics of immigration, and the history of the present. He is currently Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Rutgers University.
Dr. Gould-Wartofsky is the author of The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement (Oxford 2015) and Resistant Cities: Inside America’s Urban Revolt, 2011-Present (forthcoming 2028).
He has written for The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, The Forward, Gizmodo, Jacobin, Jewish Currents, Mother Jones, The Nation, The New Republic, and Newsweek, and his scholarship has been featured in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Dr. Gould-Wartofsky holds a BA in Government from Harvard College and a PhD in Sociology from New York University. From 2023 to 2025, he was the inaugural Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Center for Political Economy at Columbia University. He lives and works in New York City.