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Education

B.A., University of California, Berkeley
M.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Ph.D., City University of New York, Graduate Center

Biography

Randy Martin is professor of art and public policy and director of the graduate program in arts politics. He is the author of Performance as Political Act: The Embodied Self; Socialist Ensembles:Theater and State in Cuba and Nicaragua; Critical Moves: Dance Studies in Theory and Politics; On Your Marx: Relinking Socialism and the Left; Financialization of Daily Life; and Empire of Indifference: American War and the Financial Logic of Risk Management. He has edited collections on U.S. Communism, sport and academic labor and, most recently, Artistic Citizenship: A Public Voice for the Arts (with Mary Schmidt Campbell) and The Returns of Alwin Nikolais: Bodies, Boundaries, and the Dance Canon (with Claudia Gitelman).

 

Dr. Martin holds degrees in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the City University of New York. He has studied, taught, and performed in dance, theater, and clowning in the United States and abroad. Previously, he served as professor and chair of social science at Pratt Institute, associate dean of faculty at Tisch School of the Arts, and as an editor of the journal Social Text.

 

Author

On Your Marx: Rethinking Socialism and the Left; Critical Moves:
Dance Studies in Theory and Politics; Performance as Political Act:
The Embodied Self; Socialist Ensembles: Theater and State in Cuba and Nicaragua;
and edited volumes on academic labor, sport, and U.S. communism.

Affiliations

American Sociological Association
Social Text, editorial board 1984-present, Co-Editor, Fall 2000