About

Andrew J. Shapiro is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology with advanced certificates in Critical Theory and Women’s and Gender Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His core research interests include social movements, intersectional inequalities, comparative history, and theory. His work broadly explores the structural, psychic, and ideological mechanisms that reproduce and counteract inequalities. His dissertation and primary book project, “Complicity of the Oppressed,” examines why and how movements against oppression become complicit in oppression and how they might do otherwise. Through a comparative-historical case study of twentieth-century Jewish and LGBTQ movements in the US, Europe, and Palestine, he traces the complicity processes through which relatively advantaged movement actors prioritize narrow advancement over collective change. He has taught courses in general sociology, social psychology, gender, and intersectionality at Lehman College and Hunter College. He currently serves as a Bloch Fellow with the Center for Jewish Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. His work has been published in Men and Masculinities.