Seth Uzman is a PhD student in global history, whose research explores subaltern practices of world revolution in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His dissertation is an interdisciplinary intellectual and materialist history of class formation in the Greater Caribbean during the era of the Second Slavery. He is also finishing a project on dissident currents of interwar Marxism in the 1930s, with a focus on the writings of the Frankfurt School’s Walter Benjamin, and the Turkish communist poet, Nâzım Hikmet.

Seth received bachelors degrees in Mathematics, Economics, and Plan II from the University of Texas at Austin. He completed an MSc in Labor, Social Movements, and Development at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 2020. His MS thesis was titled, “The Last International? Space, Dual Power and the International Women’s Strike.”

“The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the 'emergency situation' in which we live is the rule. We must arrive at a concept of history which corresponds to this.” - Walter Benjamin

Email: ssuzman@CougarNet.UH.EDU