Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Modern European Intellectual History, German History, Critical Social Theory
Books
Transformations of Populism in Europe and the Americas: History and Recent Tendencies, co-edited with Bridget Chesterton, York Norman and Gary Marotta (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016).
Max Horkheimer and the Foundations of the Frankfurt School. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Herbert Marcuse: Heideggerian Marxism, co-edited with Richard Wolin. University of Nebraska, 2005.
Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Reader, co-edited with W. Mark Cobb. Routledge, 2004.
Articles/Book Reviews
“The Place of Empirical Social Research in Frankfurt School Critical Theory,” The Routledge Handbook of the Frankfurt School, eds. Axel Honneth, Espen Hammer and Peter Gordon (Routledge, 2017).
“Max Horkheimer and the Model of Early Critical Theory,” Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory, eds. Werner Bonefeld, Chris O’Kane and Neil Larson (Sage, 2017).
“The Personal and Theoretical Relationship Between Jürgen Habermas and Max Horkheimer,” The Cambridge Habermas Lexicon, eds. Eduardo Mendieta and Amy Allen (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
“Right-Wing Populism and the Limits of Normative Critical Theory,” Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture, vol. 16, no. 1 (January, 2017).
“Critical Theory and the Persistence of Right-Wing Populism,” vol. 15, no. 2 (September, 2016). Updated German translation of this essay: “Kritische Theorie des autoritären Populimus in den USA: Ihre Geschichte und Aktualität,” Dialektik der Aufklärung in Amerika, ed. Robert Zwarg (Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture, forthcoming).
“Genealogy and Critical Historicism: Two Concepts of Enlightenment in the Writings of Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno,” Critical Historical Studies, vol. 3, no. 2(Fall, 2016), 283-308. A French translation of this essay will also appear in La dialectique de la raison : sous bénéfice d’inventaire, eds. Gerard Raulet and Katia Genel (Paris: Editions de la maison des sciences de l'homme, 2017).
“Transformations of Producerist Populism in Western Europe,” in Transformations of Populism in Europe and the Americas: History and Recent Tendencies, eds. John Abromeit, Bridget María Chesterton, Gary Marotta and York Norman (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), pp. 231-64.
Review of Jack Jacobs, The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism (Cambridge University Press, 2015) in The German Quarterly, vol. 89, no. 1 (Winter, 2016), pp. 80-100.
Review of Lawrence J. Friedman, The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love’s Prophet (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013) in The American Historical Review, vol. 119, no. 3 (June, 2014), pp. 846-47
“Anti-Semitism among American Workers and the Aftermath of National Socialism in Germany: Reconsidering the Empirical Social Research of the Frankfurt School in the 1940s and 1950s.” Journal of Modern History, vol. 85, no. 1 (March 2013), pp. 161-168. Review of: Theodor W. Adorno and Friedrich Pollock, Guilt and Defense: On the Legacies of National Socialism in Postwar Germany and Group Experiment and Other Writings: The Frankfurt School on Public Opinion in Postwar Germany. Eds. and trans. Andrew Perrin and Jeffrey K. Olick, (Harvard University Press, 2010 and 2011); and Mark Worrell, Dialectic of Solidarity: Labor, Antisemitism, and the Frankfurt School (Haymarket Books. 2009).
“Anti-Semitism and Critical Social Theory: The Frankfurt School in Exile.” Review of Eva-Maria Ziege, Antisemitismus und Gesellschaftstheorie: Die Frankfurter Schule im amerikanischen Exil (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2009). Theory, Culture, and Society, vol. 30, no. 1 (January, 2013), pp. 140–151.
“Whiteness as a Form of Bourgeois Anthropology? Historical Materialism and Psychoanalysis in the Work of David Roediger, Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse.” Radical Philosophy Review, vol. 16, no. 1 (2013), pp. 325–343.
“Max Horkheimer et le concept matérialiste de la culture,” Les Normes et le possible: Héritage et perspectives de l’École de Francfort, eds. Gerard Raulet, Iain McDonald and Pierre-Francois Noppen, (Paris: Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2012), pp. 53-70.
Review of Thomas Wheatland’s The Frankfurt School in Exile: “Reconsidering the History of the Frankfurt School in America.” Reviews in American History, vol. 39, no. 2 (June 2011).
“The Limits of Praxis: The Social Psychological Foundations of Herbert Marcuse and Theodor Adorno’s Interpretations of the 1960s Protest Movements,” Changing the World, Changing Oneself: Political Protest and Collective Identities in the 1960s/70s West Germany and U.S., eds. B. Davis, W. Mausbach, M. Klimke and C. MacDougall (Berghahn Books, 2010).
“The Origins and Development of the Model of Early Critical Theory in the Work of Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse,” Politics and the Human Sciences, ed. David Ingram. In Volume 5, of the History of Continental Philosophy, ed. Alan Schrift (London: Acumen Publishing, 2010).
“Left Heideggerianism or Phenomenological Marxism? Revisiting Herbert Marcuse’s Critical Theory of Technology.” Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory Vol. 17, Issue 1 (March, 2010). Portuguese translation: “Heideggerianismo de esquerda ou marxismo fenomenológico? Reconsiderando a Teoria Crítica da Tecnologia de Herbert Marcuse.” Caderno CRH (Universidade Federal da Bahia), Vol. 24, No. 62 (maio-agosto, 2011).
"The Vicissitudes of the Politics of 'Life:' Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse’s Reception of Phenomenology and Vitalism in Weimar Germany." Paper presented at the conference, "Living Weimar Between System and Self," University of Indiana, September 2006. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/1833/
"Remembering Adorno," Radical Philosophy, no. 124 (March/April 2004), pp. 27-38.
Encyclopedia Entries / Bibliographies
"Frankfurt School" for the Oxford On-Line Research Bibliography in Sociology (a summary of approximately 120 books on the Frankfurt School). Published November, 2016. http://oxfordbibliographiesonline.com/view/document/obo-9780199756384/ob....
"Herbert Marcuse,“ Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought (SAGE, 2011).
"Max Horkheimer“ and „Theodor Adorno“ for Cambridge Dictionary of Political Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
