CL 21 - Contributors


 
 

Contributors 
 
Anthony Barnum teaches sociology at Dickinson College.  
 
Alzo David-West was born in Nigeria, raised in a Nigerian-Slovakian American family 
and relocated to New York City when he was eleven. He began writing fiction when he 
was thirteen. Originally aspiring to be a visual artist, he later earned an English 
BA magna cum laude from Chowan University and an English MA from East Carolina 
University in North Carolina and is now completing his doctoral dissertation in 
communication/media philosophy at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. 
While living in South Korea for four years, he became the newsbriefs editor for North 
Korean Review. He teaches in Japan. 
 
Paul Diepenbrock is a graduate student in the Centre for Global Political Economy at 
University of Sussex. 
 
Rich Gibson is Emeritus Professor of Social Studies at San Diego State University. He 
lived most of his adult life in Detroit and has worked as a teacher, a social worker, 
organizer and bargaining agent for National Education Association, and as a professor at 
Wayne State University. He helped to found what is now the largest local in the UAW, 
local 6000, not autoworkers, but state employees. He is co-editor, with E. Wayne Ross, of 
Neoliberalism and Education Reform (Hampton Press). 
 
Matthew MacLellan has a PhD in English and Film Studies from the University of 
Alberta and is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in Art History and Communication Studies 
at McGill University. 
 
Alan Spector has been active in movements against war, racism, exploitation and other 
forms of oppression since the early 1960’s. He was a full time organizer for SDS for five 
years and has been teaching sociology at Purdue University Calumet. He served as chair 
of the Section on Marxist Sociology of the American Sociological Association, published 
various articles on social movements and social change and, with Peter Knapp, co-
authored the award-winning Crisis and Change Today: Basic Questions of Marxist 
Sociology (Rowman & Littlefield). He is President of the Association for Humanist 
Sociology for 2012-2013.  
 
Lawrence Schwartz teaches 19th and 20th Century American Literature with a focus on 
intersections between literature and cultural and social history including Black writers, 
protest literature, and canonical writers at Montclair State University.