About

Andrew J. Shapiro is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology, Critical Theory, and Gender Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY, a Short-Term Research Fellow at the Center for Jewish History, and a Digitization Fellow at CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies. His research investigates the structural and psychic forces that perpetuate and counteract systems of inequality. His recent article in Men and Masculinities, titled “On Power’s Doorstep,” explores the failures of solidarity in queer movements, Jewish politics, and other oppressed groups, who are lured by prospects of power and normalcy into becoming complicit in and thus perpetuating the oppression of others. He further interrogates these themes in his dissertation and prospective book, Hurt People Hurt People, which compares Jewish and LGBTQ movement trajectories in the US, Europe, and Palestine to illuminate how social mobility for some so often reproduces inequality for others.