Recommended Citation
Mantler, Gordon and Riedner, Rachel
(2018)
"Neoliberal Higher Education: Background of the Pennsylvania State College and University Faculty Strike of 2016,"
Academic Labor: Research and Artistry: Vol. 2, Article 14.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/alra/vol2/iss1/14
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Publication-Ready Author Bio
Dr. Gordon Mantler is Director of Writing in the Disciplines and Associate
Professor of Writing and of History at the George Washington University. His
first book, Power to the Poor: Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic
Justice, 1960-1974, was the inaugural volume in the Justice, Power, and Politics
series at the University of North Carolina Press. His current research focuses on
multiracial electoral politics and community organizing in Chicago in the 1970s
and 1980s, as well as public history narratives and memorialization in
Washington, D.C. His work has been supported by GW, Duke University (where
he received his PhD in 2008), the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the American
Council of Learned Societies, the National Humanities Center, and the Black
Metropolis Research Consortium.
Dr. Rachel Riedner is Professor of Writing and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality
Studies at the George Washington University where she serves as Executive
Director of the University Writing Program. Dr. Riedner's research brings
analysis of global circulation of gendered and racialized rhetorics to an interest
in transnational feminist activisms. With Kevin Mahoney, she is the author
of Democracies to Come: Rhetorical Action, Neoliberalism, and Communities
of Resistance (Lexington Books 2008). She is also the author of Writing
Neoliberal Values: Rhetorical Connectivities and Globalized
Capitalism (Palgrave MacMillan 2015) as well as multiple essays and book
chapters. In the late 1990s, Rachel worked as a labor organizer for the United
Auto Workers (UAW), organizing part time faculty and graduate student
workers.