Zachary Levenson Florida International University, FL, USA
Dr. Zachary Levenson is the author of Delivery as Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City (2022) on Oxford University Press. He is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg, and for the 2022-23 academic year, a Donald D. Harrington Fellow in Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently working on his second book, an account of theories of racial capitalism in the anti-apartheid movement in 1970s South Africa. He explores how these theories have shaped (and continue to shape) contemporary debates over the concept of racial capitalism in the US, the UK, and the Caribbean. Levenson co-edited a 2021 special issue of Qualitative Sociology on political ethnography called “Social Life of the State,” and he is currently co-editing a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies on South African theories of racial capitalism. His work has appeared in a wide variety of venues, including the Journal of Agrarian Change, Urban Studies, the Journal of World-Systems Research, International Sociology, the Du Bois Review. He is a founding editor of Spectre and a member of the City and Community editorial board.
