Lucien Baskin

Lost & Found Archival Research Fellow

PS2 Public Research Fellow

Lucien Baskin is a doctoral student in Urban Education at the Grad Center researching
abolition, social movements, and the university. Their dissertation focuses on histories of
solidarity and organizing at CUNY. Lucien’s writing has been published in outlets such as
Truthout, Society & Space, The Abusable Past, and Mondoweiss. Currently, they serve as co-
chair of the American Studies Association Critical Prison Studies Caucus, are an inaugural
Freedom and Justice Institute fellow at Scholars for Social Justice, and work as a media and
publicity fellow at Conversations in Black Freedom Studies at the Schomburg Center. They
organize with Graduate Center for Palestine and are a (strike-ready!) rank-and-file member of
the PSC.