Emanuele Saccarelli joined the department in 2005 after receiving his Ph.D. in Political Science with a minor in History from the University of Minnesota in the same year.

 

He specializes in political theory, understood not as an abstract or “classical” set of more or less correct ideas and arguments, but as part of and window into a long and as yet unresolved political struggle among living social forces. More specifically, his teaching and research address the following issues: Classical Marxism (Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Gramsci) and the unfortunate and reversible transition to post-Marxism and post-modernism; the revolutionary struggle for democracy and the entrance of broad popular masses into history as conscious subjects, particularly in the Ancient and Early-Modern periods; the rise of modern imperialism.

 

He is the author of several academic articles and two books: 

Imperialism Past and Present, co-authored with Prof. Latha Varadarajan. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015) 

Gramsci and Trotsky in the Shadow of Stalinism. The Political Theory and Practice of Opposition. (New York: Routledge Press, 2008).

 

Emanuele is also the faculty advisor for the International Youth and Students for Social Equality, a student organization that has been politically active on campus since 2007.  For more information about the IYSSE, please email: [email protected].