Dr. Jennifer Wilson is a Postdoctoral Fellow for Academic Diversity in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania. While at Penn, she is working on two manuscripts: Radical Chastity: Abstinence and the Political Imagination in 19th Century Russian Literature and Writing a Free Society: Abolitionist Literature in Imperial Russia. She has also contributed articles on topics related to Russian culture, race, and higher education to The New Yorker, Al-Jazeera America, and The Guardian.
When I asked the instructors of Tolstoy College if they found anything contradictory about establishing an anarchist college funded by the state of New York, they all kind of shrugged it off. Peter Murphy, who taught courses on radical history, … Continue reading “Tolstoy College: The War and Peace of an Anarchist Education”
