This blog is maintained by Angus Johnston, a historian of student activism and student government. For updates on new posts and links to stories that don’t make it onto the blog, you can follow the Student Activism Twitter feed.
I received my PhD from the City University of New York in 2009. My dissertation, “The United States National Student Association: Democracy, Activism, and the Idea of the Student, 1947-1978,” is a history of American student organizing before, during, and after the 1960s as seen through the lens of the most prominent student government organization of the time. I live in Manhattan, and I teach history at the City University of New York.
I speak regularly on college campuses and at conferences, and I’m happy to make myself available for interviews with journalists or campus activists. If you want to get in touch, you can reach me at angus@fecko.com.
If you’ve got news of an event or action that you think I’d be interested in writing about, please send it along. I’d strongly suggest, though, that you do so either exclusively via Twitter or at least Twitter and email at the same time — if you tweet me a link, I’ll most likely retweet it immediately, and I may well wind up writing about it too.
And finally, if you’re thinking of asking if you can write a guest post for the site, don’t bother. I write everything that appears on StudentActivism.net myself. (Besides, 99% of the guest post requests I get are from spammers, anyway.)
