George Ciccariello-Maher graduated summa cum laude from St. Lawrence University in 2001 with degrees in Government and Economics, before pursuing a master’s degree in Social and Political Sciences at St. John’s College, Cambridge University, for which he was awarded the Davies-Jackson Scholarship. While in Cambridge, he worked with various anti-capitalist collectives, and wrote a master’s thesis on the Italian squatters’ movement. In 2003, George received a four-year Javits’ Fellowship to begin work on a Ph.D. in Political Theory at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is completing a dissertation on revolutionary subjectivity in the work of Georges Sorel, Antonio Negri, and Frantz Fanon.

His interests could be broadly grouped under the heading of “radical theory,” but also include colonialism and coloniality, world-systems theory, Black thought, hip-hop culture and rap music, Latin American politics and philosophy, and non-orthodox Marxisms. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Radical Philosophy Review, Journal of Black Studies, Qui Parle, The Commoner, Listening: Journal of Religion and Culture, and Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, as well as several edited volumes. George also frequently translates Latin American philosophy, and has translated books by Enrique Dussel and Immanuel Wallerstein.

George spent the past year living in Caracas, Venezuela, where he lectured on political economy and political theory, while working closely with movements on the revolutionary wing of the Bolivarian Revolution. His writings from Caracas—which will also appear on The Weave—have been published by Monthly Review, Counterpunch, and MRZine. He is currently working on a book-length project about popular-revolutionary organizations in Venezuela, for which his dissertation is suffering dearly. He currently lives somewhere between Caracas and Oakland.