I am Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College and member of the Faculty Committee at the Committee on Globalization and Social Change at the CUNY Graduate Center.
In 2025, I was awarded an ACLS Fellowship and Short-Term Research Fellowship at the Huntington Library for my current book project, America’s Russia: The Bolshevik Revolution, US Print Culture, and the Concept of Eurasia, 1881-1929, which traces American cultural responses to transnational socialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries at the intersection of racialization and radical politics through the prism of the Russian Revolution. My work has also been supported by a Faculty Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Faculty Fellowship from CUNY’s Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies Initiative (BRESI), an NEH Summer Scholar Fellowship for the City of Print: New York and the Periodical Press, a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) fellowship for the Cultural Studies of the Law Summer Institute in Osnabrück, Germany, and both Student and Faculty Fellowships at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. A member of the editorial board of Radical Teacher, my work can be found there as well as in Nineteenth-Century Literature, English Language Notes, and elsewhere. I also coedited the essay collection New Directions in Print Culture Studies: Archives, Materiality, and Modern American Culture, published by Bloomsbury in June of 2022.
Jesse W. Schwartz 