Kenyon Zimmer Associate Professor Email: [email protected] Department of History University of Texas at Arlington Updated: December 2019

CURRICULUM VITAE

DEGREES RECEIVED 2010 Ph.D., History, University of Pittsburgh 2005 M.A., History, University of Pittsburgh 2002 B.A., American Studies and Creative Writing, Bennington College

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2017-present Transatlantic History Ph.D. Program Advisor, University of Texas at Arlington 2016-present Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Texas at Arlington 2010-2016 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Texas at Arlington 2007-2009 Graduate Teaching Fellow, University of Pittsburgh

RESEARCH CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS Book Manuscripts Red Exiles: America’s Political Deportees in a Revolutionary World, 1917- 1939 We Are All Illegal: The Secret History of American Immigration Edited Volumes Untitled anthology on Jewish , co-edited with Anna Elena Torres Edited Editions Joseph J. Cohen, The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America: A Historical Review and Personal Reminiscences, trans. Esther Dolgoff, abridged and annotated edition

PUBLICATIONS Books 2015 Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America (University of Illinois Press, The Working Class in American History Series) 2012 Michele Centrone, tra vecchio e nuovo mondo: Anarchici Pugliesi in difesa della libertá spagnola [Michele Centrone, Between the Old World and the New: Apulian Anarchists in Defense of Spanish Freedom], co-authored with Mario Gianfrate (SUMA Editore, Italy) Edited Volumes 2018 Deportation in the Americas: Histories of Exclusion and Resistance, co- edited with Cristina Salinas (Texas A&M Press) 2017 Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW, co-edited with Peter Cole and David Struthers (Pluto Press) 2014 Cold War Crossings: International Travel and Exchange across the Soviet Bloc, 1940s-1960s, co-edited with Patryk Babiracki (Texas A&M Press) Articles, Essays, and Book Chapters 2019 “Specters of Bisbee ’17: Deportees and Outside Agitators,” in “AHR Roundtable: Re-creating the ‘Bisbee Deportation’ on Film,” American Historical Review 124, no. 3 2019 “Archiving the American Anarchist Press: Reflections on Format, Accessibility, and Language,” in “Forum: Recovering U.S. Anarchism and Its Press in the Periodical Archive,” American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography 29, no. 1 2018 “Haymarket and the Rise of ,” in The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism, edited by Carl Levy and Matthew Adams (Palgrave) 2018 “The Voyage of the Buford: Political Deportations and the Making and Unmaking of America’s ,” in Deportation in the Americas: Histories of Exclusion and Resistance, edited by Kenyon Zimmer and Cristina Salinas (Texas A&M Press) 2017 “‘A Cosmopolitan Crowd’: Transnational Anarchists, the IWW, and the American Radical Press,” in Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW, edited by Peter Cole, David Struthers, and Kenyon Zimmer (Pluto Press) 2017 "Introduction," coauthored with Peter Cole and David Struthers, in Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW (Pluto Press) 2017 “Forgotten Fighters: American Anarchist Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War,” The Volunteer, Magazine of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives, August 30

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2017 “Saul Yanovsky and Yiddish Anarchism in the Lower East Side,” in Radical Gotham: Anarchism in New York City from Schwab's Saloon to Occupy Wall Street, edited by Tom Goyens (University of Illinois Press) 2017 “At War with Empire: The Anti-Colonial Roots of American Anarchist Debates over ,” in Anarchism 1914-1918: Internationalism, Militarism, and War, edited by Matthew Adams and Ruth Kinna (Manchester University Press) 2016 “The Other Volunteers: American Anarchists and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939,” Journal for the Study of Radicalism 10, no. 2 2014 “A Golden Gate of Anarchy: Local and Transnational Dimensions of Anarchism in San Francisco, 1880s-1930s,” in Reassessing the Transnational Turn: Scales of Analysis in Anarchist and Syndicalist Studies, edited by Bert Altena and Constance Bantman (Routledge) 2014 “Positively Stateless: Marcus Graham, the Ferrero-Sallitto Case, and Anarchist Challenges to Race and Deportation,” in The Rising Tide of Color: Race, State Violence, and Radical Movements across the Pacific, edited by Moon-Ho Jung (University of Washington Press) 2014 “Revolutionaries by the Bay: Immigrant Anarchists in San Francisco, 1880s-1930s,” Journal of the West 53, no. 3 2013 “Transatlantic History: Locating and Naming an Emergent Field of Study,” Traversea: The Journal of Transatlantic History 3 2009 “Premature Anti-Communists? American Anarchism, the Russian Revolution, and Left-Wing Libertarian Anticommunism, 1917-1939,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 6, no. 2 Encyclopedia Entries 2016 “Anarchism,” in Dictionary of American History, Supplement: America in the World, 1776 to the Present (Charles Scribner’s Sons) 2013 “Syndicalism and Anarchism of Migrants,” in The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, edited by Immanuel Ness (Wiley-Blackwell) 2011 “Merison, Jacob A.,” in The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, 1500-Present, online edition, edited by Immanuel Ness (Blackwell) 2010 “Propaganda by the Deed,” in The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, 1500-Present, online edition, edited by Immanuel Ness (Blackwell) Book Reviews 2019 Review of Assassins against the Old Order: Italian Anarchist Violence in Fin de Siecle Europe, by Nunzio Pernicone and Fraser Ottanelli, H-Italy 2019 Review of Frank Little and the IWW: The Blood that Stained an American Family, by Jane Little Botkin, Annals of Wyoming

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2018 Review of New Immigrants and the Radicalization of American Labor, 1914-1924, by Thomas Mackaman, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History 15, no. 3 2018 Review of Historical Geographies of Anarchism: Early Critical Geographers and Present-Day Scientific Challenges, edited by Federico Ferretti, Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre, Anthony Ince and Francisco Toro, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography 2018 Review of Architettura di una chimera: rivoluzione e complotti in una lettera dell’anarchico Malatesta reinterpretata alla luce di inediti documenti d’archivio, by Enrico Tuccinardi and Salvatore Mazzariello, H- Italy 2017 Review of In Defiance of Boundaries: Anarchism in Latin American History, edited by Geoffrey de Laforcade and Kirwin Shaffer, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History 14, no. 2 2016 Review of Anarchist Immigrants in Spain and Argentina, by James A. Baer, Pacific Historical Review 85, no. 4 2016 Review of Working-Class Radicals: The Socialist Party in West Virginia, 1898-1920, by Frederick A. Barkley, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 12, no. 2 2015 Review of A Great Conspiracy against Our Race: Italian Immigrant Newspapers and the Construction of Whiteness in the Early 20th Century, by Peter G. Vellon, Altreitalie: International Journal of Studies on Italian Migrations in the World 50 2015 Review of The Knights Errant of Anarchy: London and the Italian Anarchist Diaspora (1880-1917), by Pietro Di Paola and Making Sense of Anarchism: Errico Malatesta’s Experiments with Revolution, 1889-1900, by Davide Turcato, Socialism and Democracy 29, no. 2 2014 Review of The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks, by Timothy Messer-Kruse, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 11, no. 1 2013 Review of Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World's First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present, by Leon Fink, Journal of Social History 46, no. 3 2012 Review of Italian Immigrant Radical Culture: The Idealism of the Sovversivi in the United States, 1890-1940, by Marcella Bencivenni, Altreitalie: International Journal of Studies on Italian Migrations in the World 44 2011 Review of Living the Revolution: Italian Women’s Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945, by Jennifer Guglielmo, Left History 15, no. 1

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2009 Review of Union-Free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture, by Lawrence Richards, Business History Review 83, no. 4

DIGITAL HUMANTITIES PROJECTS 2015-2017 “Anarchist Newspapers and Periodicals, 1872-1940,” with Arianne Hermida and James Gregory, Mapping American Social Movements Through the 20th Century, University of Washington (http://depts.washington.edu/moves/anarchist_map-newspapers.shtml)

2015-2017 “IWW Newspapers 1906-1946,” with Arianne Hermida and James Gregory, Mapping American Social Movements Through the 20th Century, University of Washington (http://depts.washington.edu/iww/map_newspapers.shtml)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLIC LECTURES Forthcoming “National Subjects and Subversive Subjectivity: The Paradox of the Anarchist Deportee in the Era of the First Red Scare, 1919-1939,” European Social Science History Conference, Leiden, The Netherlands (March 18, 2020) Forthcoming “Bisbee ’17: Film, History, and Memory at the US-Mexico Border,” Panel Discussion, American Historical Association Annual Conference, New York City (January 4, 2020) 2019 “Deportation as Diffusion: How America’s Red Scare Transformed Global Radicalism,” Social Science History Association Conference, Chicago 2019 “Cellmates and Shipmates: and the Deportees of the USAT Buford,” A Celebration of Emma Goldman at 150, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2019 “Reframing the First Red Scare: American Deportees and the Global Interwar Left,” Labor and Working-Class History Association Annual Conference, Durham, NC 2019 “The Chop Suey Strike of 1919: Chinese Workers, New York Radicals, and the Origins of the First Red Scare,” Newberry Library Seminar on Labor History, Chicago 2019 “Lost in Translation? The Erasure of Yiddish Anarchism from the History of the Jewish Left,” Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference, New York 2018 “The First Red Scare in the West and the World: Globalizing the History of Political Deportations,” Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association Annual Conference, San Jose 2018 “Deporting Subversion: Toward a Global History of the United States’ First Red Scare,” European Social Science History Conference, , Ireland

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2018 “Red Exiles: America’s Political Deportees in a Revolutionary World, 1917- 1939,” Dallas Area Society of Historians 2017 “A World without Borders: Unearthing Transnational Radical Networks in the Age of Nationalism,” invited lecture, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 2017 “Everything You Know about Immigration Is Wrong,” invited lecture, Tarrant County College, Arlington, TX 2016 “Eugene V. Debs and the Election of 1912: Making Sense of American Socialism,” Humanities Texas, “The Election of 1912 and Its Contemporary Significance, Pivotal U.S. Elections: Then and Now,” Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 2016 “Anti-Imperialism at War: The Anticolonial Roots of American Anarchist Debates Over World War I,” European Social Science History Conference, Valencia, Spain 2015 “Anarchist Alliances: Transnational and Multiethnic Radicalism in San Francisco, 1889-1940,” Labor and Working- Class History Association/Working-Class Studies Association Annual Conference, Georgetown University, Washington DC 2015 “Anarchist Interventionism: American Anarchism and the Spanish Civil War,” North American Anarchist Studies Network Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA 2014 “Anarchist, Informant, Fascist, or American? Self-Representation and the Many Faces of Ludovico Caminita,” European Social Science History Conference, Vienna, Austria 2014 “‘Their Cause is Ours’: The Mexican Revolution as Transnational Anarchist Revolution,” Illustrating Anarchy and Revolution: Mexican Legacies of Global Change, University of Texas at Austin 2013 “Rereading American Syndicalism: The Immigrant Anarchist Press of Paterson, New Jersey, and the Unknown History of the Industrial Workers of the World,” Labor and Working-Class History Association Annual Conference, New York, NY 2013 “L’Era Nuova: Italian Anarchists, the IWW, and the Hidden History of the 1913 Silk Strike,” Paterson Silk Strike Centennial Conference, 1913-2013, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ 2013 “Southern Borderlands/Global Borderlands: Foreign Anarchists and Syndicalists in the Mexican Revolution,” Southern Labor History Conference, New Orleans, LA 2012 “The Bastards of All Nations: Anarchism, Immigration, and the American Nation,” North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, MI

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2012 “Local, National, and Global Histories of Anarchism: The Case of San Francisco, 1881-1940,” European Social Science History Conference, Glasgow, Scotland 2012 “‘One Big Union’ in Paterson: Italian Anarchism, the IWW, and the Silk Strike of 1913 Reexamined,” American Historical Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL 2011 “Race, Radicalism, and Repression on the Bay: The International Anarchist Group of San Francisco and the Ferrero-Sallitto Case, 1927-1940,” Race, Radicalism, and Repression on the Pacific Coast and Beyond Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 2011 “‘Yiddish is My Homeland’: A Transnational History of Jewish-American Anarchism, 1880s-1930s,” North American Anarchist Studies Network Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada 2010 “Yiddish- and Italian-Language Anarchism in America: Divergent Models of Diasporic Radicalism,” European Social Science History Conference, Ghent, Belgium 2010 “Alternatives to Working-Class Whiteness? Race and Cosmopolitanism in Italian-American Anarchism, 1890s-1930s,” American Historical Association Annual Conference, San Diego, CA

AWARDS RECEIVED 2019 Faculty Development Leave, University of Texas at Arlington 2019 Wright Accolade Award for graduate student mentoring, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Arlington 2018 Faculty Senate Travel Award, University of Texas at Arlington 2014 Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Arlington 2009 Lillian B. Lawler Graduate Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh 2008 History Graduate Student Teaching Award, University of Pittsburgh 2008 Grant-in-Aid, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2012-2019 Book review co-editor, Altreitalie: International Journal of Studies on Italian Migrations in the World 2008-present Manuscript reviewer for AJS Review; American Periodicals: A Journal of History & Criticism; Capital & Class; Essays in Anarchism and Religion; Humanity; Italian American Review; Journal for the Study of Radicalism;

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Labor: Studies in Working-Class History; Radical History Review; Routledge Critical Moments in American History; State University of New York Press; University of Florida Press; University of Illinois Press; Westview Press; Yearbook of Transnational History

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