Ĭiccariello-Maher was a member of Bring the Ruckus, co-founded by the late Joel Olson. When four members were rusticated from King's College, Cambridge in 2002 for their participation in a squatted social center, Ciccariello-Maher co-authored an appeal document that resulted in their reinstatement.
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While in England, Ciccariello-Maher was a member of the Cambridge collective Anti-Capitalist Action, and was later arrested during the 20 March 2003 anti-war protest known as "Day X" that marked the beginning of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In January 2018, Cicarriello-Maher announced on Facebook that he was now a visiting scholar at New York University's Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. On December 28, Ciccariello-Maher announced his resignation from Drexel, effective December 31, citing "nearly a year of harassment by right-wing, white supremacist media outlets and Internet mobs, after death threats and threats of violence directed against me and my family." Following this, Drexel University placed Ciccariello-Maher on administrative leave. In October 2017, he became the subject of controversy after tweeting "All I Want for Christmas is White Genocide and "To clarify: when the whites were massacred during the Haitian Revolution, that was a good thing indeed". Ĭiccariello-Maher has served as a media commentator on Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution, Mike Brown, Freddie Gray and Philando Castile, the Ferguson unrest and 2015 Baltimore protests, and the abolition of the police. He is a member of the editorial collective of Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics.
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He has translated books by Enrique Dussel, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Stefan Gandler, and is co-editor (with Bruno Bosteels) of the book series "Radical Américas," published by Duke University Press. His first book, We Created Chavez: A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution, concerns Hugo Chavez's Bolivarian Revolution. Ĭiccariello-Maher is the author of three books. He was promoted to associate professor in 2016. After returning he finished a Ph.D in political science from Berkeley in 2010, and was then appointed as assistant professor of politics and global studies at Drexel University in Philadelphia the same year. He then completed a master's degree at University of California, Berkeley before taking a sabbatical in Mexico. Lawrence University and Cambridge University, where he was a Davies-Jackson Scholar.
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Ciccariello-Maher did his undergraduate work at St.