KENT WORCESTER

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Professor of Political Science, Marymount Manhattan College, 2010-present. Assistant 1997-2003; Associate 2003- 2010.

Adjunct Instructor, Department of Art History, School of Visual Arts, 2009-present.

Chair, Department of Political Science, Marymount Manhattan College, 2010-2014.

Chair, Division of Social Sciences, Marymount Manhattan College, 2004-2008.

Adjunct Instructor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University, 1987-1991 and 2002-2003.

Program Director, Social Science Research Council, 1991- 2000.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Columbia University. Political Science. 1990.

M.Phil (distinction). Columbia University. Political Science. 1986.

M.A. Columbia University. Political Science. 1984.

B.A. University of Massachusetts at Boston. Economics (distinction) and Political Science (honors). 1982.

PUBLICATIONS

Silent Agitators: Cartoon Art from the Pages of New Politics. BOOKS New Politics Associates, 2016.

Peter Kuper: Conversations. University Press of Mississippi,

2016.

Peter Bagge: Conversations. University Press of Mississippi, 2015.

The Superhero Reader (coedited with Charles Hatfield and Jeet Heer). University Press of Mississippi, 2013. Nominated for a 2014 Eisner Award for Best Scholarly/Academic Writing.

A Comics Studies Reader (coedited with Jeet Heer). University Press of Mississippi, 2009. Received the 2010 Peter C. Rollins Book Award for the year’s best book in cultural studies and/or American studies.

Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium (coedited with Jeet Heer). University Press of Mississippi, 2004.

Violence and Politics: Globalization’s Paradox (coedited with Sally Avery Bermanzohn and Mark Ungar). Routledge, 2002.

The Social Science Research Council: 1923-1998. SSRC, 2001. Foreword by Craig Calhoun, afterword by Kenneth Prewitt.

C.L.R. James: A Political Biography. SUNY Press, 1996.

Trade Union Politics: American Unions and Economic Change, 1960s-1990s (coedited with Glenn Perusek). Humanities Press, 1995.

BOOK “Brexit Cartoons.” In Paul Baines, et al., Explaining Britain’s CHAPTERS Break-Up: Why It Happened, What Comes Next. IndieBooks, 2017.

“Graphic Narrative and the War on Terror.” In Tatiana Prorokova and Nimrod Tal, eds. Cultures of War in Graphic Novels. Rutgers University Press, 2017.

“Journalistic Comics.” In Frank Bramlett, Roy T. Cook, and Aaron Meskin, eds. Routledge Companion Guide to Comics and Graphic Novels. Routledge, 2016.

“Editorial Cartoons and the 2015 Election.” In Paul Baines,

et al., Explaining Cameron’s Comeback: An Analysis of the 2015

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British General Election. IndieBooks, 2015.

“Foreword.” In Jane Chapman, Dan Ellin, Anna Hoyles, Andrew Kerr, and Adam Sherif. Comics and the World Wars: A Cultural Record. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

“The Punisher: Marvel Universe Icon and Murderous Anti- Hero.” In Fiona Peters and Rebecca Stewart, eds. Crime Uncovered: Anti-Heroes. Intellect Books, 2015.

“Graphic Novels in the Social Science Classroom.” In Robert Glover and Daniel Tagliarina, eds. Teaching Politics Beyond the Book: Film, Texts, and New Media in the Classroom. Bloomsbury, 2012.

“Editorial Cartoons and the 2010 Election.” In Paul Baines, et al., Explaining Cameron’s Coalition – How it Came About: An Analysis of the 2010 British General Election. Biteback, 2011.

“C.L.R. James and the American Century.” In Selwyn Cudjoe and William Cain, eds. C.L.R. James: His Intellectual Legacies. University of Massachusetts Press, 1995.

“A Victorian with the Rebel Seed: C.L.R. James and the Politics of Intellectual Engagement.” In Alistair Hennessy, ed. Intellectuals in the Twentieth-Century Caribbean. Macmillan, 1992.

“The Question of the Canon: C.L.R. James and Modern Politics.” In Paget Henry and Paul Buhle, eds. C.L.R. James’s Caribbean. Duke University Press, 1992.

SPECIAL Guest editor and author of introduction to a special issue on JOURNAL “Navigating the Profession: Sage Advice from the Pages of ISSUES PS.” PS: Political Science and Politics (February 2016).

Coeditor and coauthor of introduction to symposium on “The Politics of the Superhero” (with Matthew Costello). PS: Political Science and Politics 47.1 (January 2014).

Editor and author of introduction to symposium on “The Meaning and Legacy of the Magna Carta.” PS: Political Science and Politics 43.3 (July 2010).

Editor and author of introduction to symposium on “The State of the Editorial Cartoon.” PS: Political Science and

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Politics 40.2 (April 2007).

Coeditor and coauthor of introduction to symposium on “Violence and Politics” (with Sally Avery Bermanzohn). New Political Science 21.1 (March 2000).

Coeditor and coauthor of introduction to symposium on “After Thatcher” (with Chris Toulouse). New Political Science 33 (Winter 1996).

“You Must Never Forget to be Silly: Matt Pritchett of the ARTICLES/ Telegraph.” This England, forthcoming. RESEARCH PAPERS “Comics, Comics Studies, and Political Science.” International Political Science Review 38.1 (January 2017).

“East End Anarchism.” This England 477 (Winter 2016).

“The Graphic Juggernaut.” www.newpol.org. Posted on December 12, 2015.

“Love Control: The Secret History of Wonder Woman.” New Politics XV.3 (Summer 2015). Posted on portside.org on August 6, 2015.

“Visual Language: Neil Cohn and Kent Worcester in Conversation.” International Journal of Comic Art 17.1 (Spring 2015).

“Magna Carta is Worth Studying.” Insights on Law & Society 15.1 (Fall 2014).

“Laura Slobe, Jesse Cohen, and the Hidden History of Political Cartooning” (with Ethan Young). International Journal of Comic Art 15.2 (Fall 2013).

“The Punisher and the Politics of Retributive Violence.” Law Text Culture 16.1 (2012).

“New York City, 9/11 and Comics.” Radical History Review 111 (Fall 2011).

“How Cartoonists Responded to 9/11.” WNET MetroFocus. Posted on September 7, 2011.

“Persepolis and the Rise of the Graphic Novel.” 71 Street Magazine (Spring 2011).

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“Toon Town: New York City and Comics.” Seaport: New York City’s History Magazine 43.1 (Summer 2009).

“C.L.R. James, Mid-Century Marxism, and the Popular Arts.” Reconstruction 2.2 (September 2002).

“The Captains of Intellect: On the History of the Social Science Research Council.” Center for International and Comparative Studies (working paper no. 5), Northwestern University (2001).

“An Introduction to the SSRC Collection.” A Guide to the Social Science Research Council Archives at the Rockefeller Archive Center (Rockefeller Archive Center, 1999).

“Trends in Funding for Graduate Student Field Research in Comparative Politics” (with Eric Hershberg). Newsletter of the Organized Section in Comparative Politics of the American Political Science Association 10.2 (Summer 1999).

“Popular Culture and American Civilization.” Popular Culture Review 7.1 (February 1996).

“The American C.L.R. James.” Minnesota Review 41-42 (March 1995).

“Superman, Philip Wylie and the New Deal.” Comics Forum 5 (Summer 1994).

“C.L.R. James and the Development of a Pan-African Problematic.” Journal of Caribbean History 27.1 (Summer 1994).

“European Studies after the Cold War” (with Sidney Tarrow). Chronicle of Higher Education (April 6, 1994).

“The New Challenges Facing European Studies” (with Sidney Tarrow). PS: Political Science and Politics 27.1 (March 1994).

“C.L.R. James, Multiculturalism and the Canon.” National Political Science Review 4 (1994).

“’And Mr. T Drives the Car’: Reflections on The A-Team.” Popular Culture Review 4.1 (January 1993).

“C.L.R. James and the Gospel of American Modernity.” Socialism and Democracy 8.2-3 (1992).

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“British Labour’s Unexpected Defeat.” New Politics 13 (Summer 1992).

“C.L.R. James in the 1980s: A Conversation with Anna Grimshaw.” Pamphlet published by the C.L.R. James Institute (1991).

“C.L.R. James, Marxism, and America.” Research and Society 4 (1991).

“Europe’s Democratic Deficit.” World Policy Journal 8.4 (Fall 1991).

“Trade Union Strategies and the Enterprise Culture in Britain.” Critical Sociology 18.1 (Spring 1991).

“The New Politics of Training.” Youth and Policy 27 (Summer 1989).

“Ten Years of Thatcherism: The Enterprise Culture and the Democratic Alternative.” World Policy Journal 6.2 (Spring 1989).

“Class Politics and the British Mining Strike.” In Paul Zarembka, ed., Research in Political Economy 10 (1987).

“West Indian Politics and Cricket: C.L.R. James and Trinidad, 1958-1963.” CISCLA Working Paper 20 (1985).

“C.L.R. James and the American Century, 1938-1953.” CISCLA Working Paper 12 (1984).

“Third Camp Politics: An Interview with Phyllis and Julius INTERVIEWS Jacobson.” Left History 18.1 (Fall 2014). Posted on www.newpol.org on June 16, 2016; reposted on www.workersliberty.org on June 17, 2016.

“Making Stories Real and Concrete: An Interview with Nick Thorkelson.” International Journal of Comic Art 14.2 (Fall 2012).

“The Eli Valley Interview.” tcj.com. Posted on September 1, 2010.

“Pterodactyl Fever: An Interview with Brendan Leach.”

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tcj.com. Posted on June 28, 2010.

“An Art Unscrolling in Time: An Interview with Mindy Aloff.” tcj.com. Posted on January 31, 2010.

“Rethinking Political Science: An Interview with Mark Kesselman.” New Political Science 30.1 (March 2008).

“Interview with Ernie Colón.” The Comics Journal 285 (October 2007).

“The World War III Illustrated Roundtable.” The Comics Journal 276 (June 2006).

“Interview with Steve Bell.” The Comics Journal 272 (November 2005).

“Interview with Jeff Danziger.” The Comics Journal 272 (November 2005).

“Get Your War On: An Interview with David Rees.” Radical Society: A Journal of Culture and Politics 30.3-4 (2003).

“Interview with Anthony Romero.” (with Mark Dow). New Politics 10.1 (Summer 2003).

“Interview with Ruben Bolling.” The Comics Journal 247 (October 2002).

“Interview with Donald Rooum.” The Comics Journal 247 (October 2002).

“Interview with Daniel Lazare.” New Politics 8.2 (Winter 2001).

“Interview with Seth Tobocman.” The Comics Journal 233 (May 2001).

“Interview with Kyle Baker.” The Comics Journal 219 (January 2000).

“Interview with Carol Lay.” The Comics Journal 213 (June 1999).

“Interview with Bob Fingerman.” The Comics Journal 207 (September 1998). “Interview with Ted Rall.” The Comics Journal 206 (August

1998).

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“Magna Carta.” In Michael T. Gibbons, ed. The Encyclopedia ENCYCLOPEDIA of Political Thought. Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. ENTRIES “Political Cartoons.” In M. Keith Booker, ed. Comics Through Time, Vol. I. ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, 2014.

“Political Cartoons, 1960-1980.” In M. Keith Booker, ed. Comics Through Time, Vol. II. ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, 2014.

“Political Cartoons, 1980-1995.” In M. Keith Booker, ed. Comics Through Time, Vol. III. ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, 2014.

“Political Cartoons, 1995-present.” In M. Keith Booker, ed. Comics Through Time, Vol. IV. ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, 2014.

“Terrorism and 9/11.” In M. Keith Booker, ed. Comics Through Time, Vol. IV. ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, 2014.

“Dan Clowes.” In Randy Duncan and Matthew Smith, eds. Icons of the American Comic Book: From Captain America to Wonder Woman. ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, 2013.

“Rorschach.” In Randy Duncan and Matthew Smith, eds. Icons of the American Comic Book: From Captain America to Wonder Woman. ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, 2013.

“Concrete.” In Bart Beaty and Stephen Weiner, eds. Graphic Novels. Salem Press, 2012.

“C.L.R. James.” In Michael Ryan, ed. The Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural History. Routledge, 2011.

“Peter Bagge.” In M. Keith Booker, ed. Greenwood Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels. Greenwood, 2010.

“Cages.” In M. Keith Booker, ed. Greenwood Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels. Greenwood, 2010.

“Comics Scholarship.” In M. Keith Booker, ed. Greenwood Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels. Greenwood, 2010.

“Dan Clowes.” In M. Keith Booker, ed. Greenwood Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels. Greenwood, 2010.

“Eightball.” In M. Keith Booker, ed. Greenwood Encyclopedia

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of Comic Books and Graphic Novels. Greenwood, 2010.

“Harvey Pekar.” In M. Keith Booker, ed. Greenwood Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels. Greenwood, 2010.

“Stuck Rubber Baby.” In M. Keith Booker, ed. Greenwood Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels. Greenwood, 2010.

“C.L.R. James.” In William A. Darity, ed. International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition. Macmillan, 2008.

“C.L.R. James.” In David DeLeon, ed. Leaders from the 1960s: A Biographical Sourcebook. Greenwood, 1994.

PROFESSIONAL Campus representative, Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship ACTIVITIES Program (2003-2006); James Madison Memorial Fellowship Program (2009-present); Marshall Fund (2004-2008).

Chair, Pi Sigma Alpha Undergraduate Honors Thesis Award Committee (2016-2017)

Cochair, RATE site visit (2006-2007).

Consultant: Bank Street College (2009); Andrew Mellon Foundation (2004); the New York Center for Independent Publishing (2009); St. Francis College (2002); Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2014); SSRC- ACLS International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship Program (2006).

Faculty Advisor, Pi Sigma Alpha, 2001-present.

Member, Ad Hoc Committee on the Future of PS: Political Science and Politics, American Political Science Association, 2013-2014.

Member, Board of Academic Advisors to the Magna Carta 800th Anniversary Committee, 2010-2015.

Member, Board of Advisors, Comics and the World Wars: A Cultural Record (International Research Project based at the University of Lancaster), 2012-2015.

Member, Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award

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Committee, Caucus for a New Political Science, 2016-2017.

Member, Christian Bay Award Committee, Caucus for a New Political Science, 2013-2014.

Member, Founders’ Scholarship Selection Committee for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, 2009.

Member, Michael Harrington Award Committee, Caucus for a New Political Science, 2014-2015.

Member, MMC committees on Academic Policy, 2004-2008; Academic Standards and Honors, 1992-2002; Budget, 2002- 2004; Diversity Task Force, 1997-1999; Enrollment Management, 2004-2010; Faculty Budget and Welfare, 2000- 2003; Faculty Leaves and Fellowships, 1998-2001; Graduate Fellowships and Scholarships, 1998-2002; Grants, 1999-2000; Grievances, 1998-1999 and 2012-present; Honorary Degree, 2010-present; Monitor Advisory Board, 2001-2003; Outcomes Assessment, 2008-2009; Strategic Planning, 2012-2013; Strategic Planning Subcommittee on Adult Students, 1998- 2000; and Teacher Education, 2004-2008.

Member, MMC search committees on Asian History, 1997- 1998; European History, 2006-2007; International Studies, 2014-2015; Sociology, 2006-2007; U.S. History, 1998-1999; U.S. Politics, 1999-2000; 2003-2004; 2006-2007; 2008-2009; Writing, 2015-2016.

Member, Pi Sigma Alpha Best Course Paper Committee, 2015.

Member, Pi Sigma Alpha Executive Council, 2014-2018.

Member, Speakers in the Humanities Program, New York Council for the Humanities, 2006-2015.

Program chair: “Post-Bang: Comics Ten Minutes After the Big Bang” (with Art Spiegelman). One-day conference cosponsored by the New York Institute for the Humanities and the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, June 6, 2008.

Program Chair: MoCCA Festival. Annual two-day arts convention dedicated to alternative comics, 2002-2009.

PromoDoc Ambassador (promoting graduate study in the European Union), 2012-2013.

Reviewed book manuscripts for Bloomsbury Publishing

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(2013, 2014, 2015, 2016); Duke University Press (2012, 2013, 2014, 2016); Humanities Press (1998); Palgrave/Macmillan (2009); Pearson (2015); Pluto Press (2013); Prentice-Hall (2006); Routledge (2016); SUNY Press (1996); the University of California Press (2013); the University of Illinois Press (2011); the University of Wisconsin Press (2008); the University Press of Kansas (2013 and 2014); the University Press of Mississippi (2005, 2007, 2016); and the U.S. Institute of Peace Press (2014).

Reviewed journal articles for the Australasian Journal of Popular Culture (2012); College Literature (2009); The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship (2016); Digital Humanities Quarterly (2013); ImageTexT (2015 and 2016); Kome: An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry (2016); New Political Science (2010); Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research (2016); Nordic Network for Comics Research (2012); Sociological Forum (2013); and Visual Anthropology (2007).

CONTACT INFO Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, Marymount Manhattan College, 221 East 71 Street, NY NY 10021 USA. (646) 393-4137. [email protected].

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