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 scholarship investigates the structural, cultural, and psychic forces that reproduce and challenge systems of inequality. His Men and Masculinities article “On Power’s Doorstep” explores how LGBTQ movements, Jewish communities, and other oppressed groups are lured by prospects of power and normalcy into becoming complicit in and thereby perpetuating the oppression of others. His dissertation and book project, tentatively titled “Hurt People Hurt People,” extends themes of complicity, solidarity, and inequality through a comparative-historical analysis of twentieth-century queer and Jewish political formations in the US, Europe, and Palestine. Having previously taught courses in general sociology, social psychology, gender, and intersectionality at Lehman College and Hunter College, he currently serves as a Short-Term Research Fellow with the Center for Jewish History and a Digitization Fellow for the CLAGS Center for LGBTQ Studies Research Archive.