Kristin Lawler

Kristin Lawler is Assistant Professor of Sociology at The College of Mount Saint Vincent in New York City. Her first book, The American Surfer: Radical Culture and Capitalism, was published by Routledge in 2011 and examined the subversive politics of the pop culture image of surfing during the twentieth century. Her essay, “Fear of a Slacker Revolution: Occupy Wall Street and the Cultural Politics of the Class Struggle” was published by the Social Science Research Council in its “Possible Futures” Digital Forum on Occupy Wall Street. Her essay, “Fix the Tired: Cultural Politics and the Struggle for Shorter Hours” is included in Living with Class: Philosophical Reflections on Identity and Material Culture, edited by Ron Scapp and Brian Seitz and forthcoming from Palgrave MacMillan. And Dr. Lawler’s essay, “The Politics of Austerity and the Ikarian Dream,” was published in the March 2013 issue of Z Magazine.