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. He is a mixed-methods sociologist who uses intersectionality, social movements, social psychology, and culture to explore how movements against oppression become complicit in oppression and how they might do otherwise. In the book project born of his dissertation research, “Complicity of the Oppressed,” he traces the complicity processes through which relatively advantaged movement actors prioritize narrow advancement over collective change, using a comparative-historical case study of twentieth-century Jewish and LGBTQ movements in the US, Central Europe, and historic Palestine. 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.
