Kenyon Zimmer
Fields:United States; Race, Ethnicity and Gender; Transnational Social Movements
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MA or PhD research topic:
MA: “‘A Prison is a Poor Place to Build a New World in’: American Anarchism, the Russian Revolution, and the Origins of Leftwing Anticommunism, 1917-1939.” (2005) This project dealt with the impact of the Russian Revolution on anarchists in the United States and their formation of an early anticommunist critique.
PhD: “‘The Whole World is Our Country, Liberty is Our Law': Immigration and Anarchism in the United States, 1885-1940.”
This is a study of the social, ideological, and political worlds of Italian and Eastern European Jewish anarchists in America, and the ways in which they grappled with competing claims of nationalism, citizenship, race, and ethnic identity from within a transnational movement devoted to universalism and opposed to the nation-state.
Teaching experience:
TA:
Western Civilization I (TA, Spring 2006)
Western Civilization II (TA, Fall 2005)
US History I (TA, Spring 2004)
US History II (TA, Fall 2003 & Fall 2006)
Instructor:
US History II (Spring 2007 & Fall 2008)
Conference Presentations:
“The Whole World is Our Country: Race, Ethnicity, and Internationalism in Jewish and Italian-American Anarchism, 1890-1940.” Graduate Program Speaker Series, University of Pittsburgh, Winter 2008 (forthcoming).
Roundtable on “Current Historical Research in Working-Class Migration and Radicalism.” Indigenous, Immigrant, Migrant Labour & Globalization conference, Pacific Northwest Labour History Association and Labor & Working Class History Association, Vancouver, BC, Summer 2008
“Beyond the Melting Pot, the Patria, and Zion: Immigrant Anarchist Identities in the United States, 1886-1939.” 101st Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, New York, Spring 2008.
“Paesani against the Patria: Transnational and Anti-National Dimensions of Italian-American Anarchism.” Research in Progress Seminar, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Spring 2008.
“Anarchist Interventionism: American Anarchists and Social Revolution in the Spanish Civil War.” European History Colloquium, University of Pittsburgh, Fall 2007
“The Unassimilable: American Immigrants, Anarchism, and the State, 1890-1940.” Boundaries and Alliances in the Americas and Beyond, Graduate Student Conference, Carnegie Mellon University, Spring 2007.
“Premature Anticommunists: American Anarchism, the Russian Revolution, and the Spanish Civil War.” Social Science History Association 31st Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Fall 2006.
“‘A Prison is a Poor Place to Build a New World in': American Anarchism and the Russian Revolution, 1917-1939.” Working-Class History Seminar, University of Pittsburgh, Spring 2005.
Publications
“Premature Anti-Communists? American Anarchism, the Russian Revolution, and Left-Wing Libertarian Anticommunism, 1917-1939.” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas (forthcoming, 2009).
“Gordin, Abba;” “Merison, Jacob;” “Zolotarov, Hillel;” “Yanovsky, Saul;”and “Propaganda by the Deed,” in The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, 1500-Present. Ed. Immanuel Ness. Blackwell Publishers (forthcoming, 2009).
Fellowships, Awards:
Teaching Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, College of General Studies, 2008-2009
Samuel P. Hays Summer Research Grant, 2008
Gildin Yiddish Book Scholarship, National Yiddish Book Center, 2008
Grant-in-Aid, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2008
Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 2007-2008
C. Y. Hsu Summer Research Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 2007
Arts and Sciences Summer Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 2007
Teaching Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 2006-2007
Steiner Summer Internship for Yiddish Studies, National Yiddish Book Center, 2006
Teaching Assistantship, University of Pittsburgh, 2003-2006
Barbara Wertheimer Prize, New York Labor History Association, 2002
George Watt Award, Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives, 2001
