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 work broadly explores the structural, psychic, and ideological mechanisms that reproduce and counteract inequalities. His dissertation and primary book project, “Hurt People Hurt People,” 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. His work has been published in Men and Masculinities. Having previously taught courses in general sociology, social psychology, gender, and intersectionality at Lehman College and Hunter College, he currently serves as a research fellow at the Center for Jewish History and an archival assistant for the CLAGS Center for LGBTQ Studies.