Discussion | Michael Meeropol and Hannah Gurman | We’ve Been Here Before: McCarthyism and the Age of Trump
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Tuesday, October 29 (5:30-7:00 PM) for a discussion between Michael Meeropol and Hannah Gurman. They will discuss the legacy of McCarthyism in the age of Trump.
Michael Meeropol graduated from Swarthmore in 1964 with a Major in Economics and Minors in History and Philosophy. After earning a second BA and MA at Cambridge University, he received his Ph.D. in economic history from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He taught at Western New England College (now University) from 1970 to 2008, and he served as Department Chair from 2000 to 2008. He has been visiting Professor of Economics and Interdisciplinary Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York for three and a half years between 2009 and 2014.
Since 2005, he has been a regular commentator on economic issues on WAMC-FM (the NPR affiliate) in Albany, NY. In addition to numerous reviews and short articles on economic issues, he has written Surrender, How the Clinton Administration Completed the Reagan Revolution (University of Michigan Press, 1998, updated pbk 2000) and co-authored (with Howard J. Sherman) Principles of Macroeconomics, Activist vs. Austerity Policies, recently published by M.E. Sharpe. He has co-authored with his brother Robert We Are Your Sons, the Legacy of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg (Houghton-Mifflin, 1970 and U. of Illinois Press, 1986). He has edited The Rosenberg Letters, A Complete Prison Correspondence of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (Garland, 1994).
Hannah Gurman teaches U.S. history and American Studies at NYU’s Gallatin School of
Individualized Study. Her work focuses on U.S. political and intellectual history in the twentieth century. She has written extensively on U.S. foreign policy, empire, and national security. Her first book, The Dissent Papers: The Voices of Diplomats in the Cold War and Beyond (Columbia University Press, 2012) explores the politics of dissent in the State Department. She is also the editor of Hearts and Minds: A People’s History of Counterinsurgency (The New Press, 2013) and Whistleblowing Nation: The History of National Security Disclosures and the Cult of State Secrecy (co-edited with Kaeten Mistry, Columbia University Press, 2020), which was part of a collaborative research project funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council. Her writing has been published in popular outlets, including The Nation, Washington Post, Dissent, Jacobin, and The Baffler. She is currently working on a book, tentatively entitled Cracked Consensus, about anti-liberal intellectuals and the reconstruction of reactionary politics in the Trump era.
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