Dr. Michael Gould-Wartofsky is an award-winning writer, scholar, editor, and educator, who studies the sociology of social movements and the politics of resistance through a critical realist lens.
Dr. Gould-Wartofsky is the author of The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement (Oxford 2015), as well as the forthcoming Resistance: Field Notes from the Frontlines, 2016-Present.
He has written for The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, The Forward, Gizmodo, Jacobin, Jewish Currents, Mother Jones, The Nation, The New Republic, Newsweek, and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Dr. Gould-Wartofsky holds a BA in Government from Harvard and a PhD in Sociology from NYU.
From 2023 to 2025, he was the inaugural Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Center for Political Economy at Columbia University.
He lives in New York City, where he currently works as an independent scholar.