Education

Teaching

• Crime & Justice Studies
• Women & Gender Studies
• Black Studies

Teaching

Programs

Programs

• Black Studies
• Crime & Justice Studies BA
• Urban Studies
• Women's and Gender Studies BA

Teaching

Courses

Teaching

Online and Continuing Education Courses

Research

Research interests

• Hemispheric American Studies
• Comparative Race & Ethnicity
• Neoliberalism
• Labor
• Transnational Social Movements

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• Eric Larson (2023).
  Grounding Global Justice: Race, Class, and Grassroots Globalism in the U.S. and Mexico. Publisher: University of California Press
  
• Larson, Eric D. (2018).
  Anti-Colonial Anti-Intervention: Puerto Rican Independentismo and the U.S. "Anti-Intervention" Left in Reagan-Era Boston
  Journal of Transnational American Studies, 93-118.
  
• Eric D. Larson (2018).
  Tradition and Transition: Neoliberal Multiculturalism and the Containment of Indigenous Insurgency in Southern Mexico in the 1990s
  Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 22-46.
  
• Eric D. Larson (2015).
  Black Lives Matter and Bridge-Building: Labor Education for a "New Jim Crow" Era
  Labor Studies Journal, 36-66.
  
• Eric Larson (editor) (2013).
  Jobs with Justice: 25 Years, 25 Voices. Publisher: PM Press
  

Eric Larson is a comparative scholar of race, labor, and social movements in the neoliberal Americas. He is author of Grounding Global Justice: Race, Class, and Grassroots Globalism in the U.S. and Mexico (University of California Press, 2023). The book reconsiders the explosive emergence of “anti-globalization” movements at the turn of the twenty-first century in the U.S. and Mexico. What does that moment mean for today, when Trumpism has once again made globalization a key topic in public life? By situating social movements amidst the twin forces of racialized criminalization and state-sponsored multiculturalism, the book details the way poor people helped challenge official understandings of globalization and national belonging.

Larson’s research has appeared in journals including Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies and Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, and he published an article on labor and #BlackLivesMatter in the Labor Studies Journal. He also compiled and edited Jobs with Justice: 25 Years, 25 Voices (PM Press, 2013), to which he contributed a prologue. His work is informed by local justice struggles and popular education, and he works directly with Break the Cycle Cooperative Hub. The organization published an important report on worker-owned cooperatives for community members returning from prison in 2022. At the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Larson teaches courses on borders, criminalization, racism, social movements, and social theory. He also teaches in prison and leads a Study Abroad course in Oaxaca, Mexico, where students work with local partners to compare forms of racialization and systems of restorative and transformative justice. He received his PhD in American Studies from Brown University in 2011. You can find more of his writing at Academia.edu.

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