Alyosha Goldstein is a professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Poverty in Common: The Politics of Community Action during the American Century (2012), the editor of Formations of United States Colonialism (2014), and the co-editor of For Antifascist Futures: Against the Violence of Imperial Crisis (2022). Goldstein co-edited journal special issues on “Fascisms” (with Simón Ventura Trujillo) for Critical Ethnic Studies (2021), “Economies of Dispossession: Indigeneity, Race, Capitalism” (with Jodi A. Byrd, Jodi Melamed, and Chandan Reddy) for Social Text (2018), “On Colonial Unknowing” (with Juliana Hu Pegues and Manu Vimalassery [Karuka]) for Theory & Event (2016), and “Settler Colonialism” (with Alex Lubin) for South Atlantic Quarterly (2008). Goldstein is completing a book manuscript on colonialism, racial capitalism, and histories of Native and Black dispossession in what is presently called the United States, and currently serves as an elected board member of the SouthWest Organizing Project.
