Matthew Karp is an Associate Professor of History at Princeton University since 2013 and was an Elias Boudinot Bicentennial Preceptor from 2016 to 2019.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Karp was also an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania from 2011 to 2012 and a Teaching Fellow at Rowan University from 2011 to 2012.[1] Karp is a contributing editor for American socialist magazine Jacobin; his work has also appeared in American progressive magazine The Nation, The Boston Review, and The London Review of Books.[3][5][7][8]
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Education | University of Pennsylvania (PhD) Amherst College (BA) |
At Princeton, Karp teaches courses on the politics of the American Civil War era, abolitionism and slavery, and nineteenth century American politics.[2][4][6] Karp earned a Bachelor of Arts in History from Amherst College in 2003 and a PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania in 2011.[1][2]
In 2016, Karp's first book, This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy, was published by Harvard University Press and went on to win several awards.[1][2][4] The book examines how slavery shaped U.S. foreign relations before the Civil War.[2] Karp is currently writing a book titled The Radicalism of the Republican Party, which examines the emergence of anti-slavery politics in the United States and in particular the radical vision of the Republican Party in the 1850s before the Civil War.[1][2][4]
Originally from Rockville, Maryland and raised by a single mother, Karp canvassed for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign and for Bernie Sanders' 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns.[6] In the 1990s and 2000s, Karp identified as a "moderate Democrat", but became more interested in socialism and democratic socialism following the Great Recession in 2008 and the Occupy movement in 2011.[6]
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- ^ a b "Matt Karp". Jacobin. Archived from the original on 2021-08-01. Retrieved 2021-08-01.
- ^ a b c d "Matthew Karp". Institute of Governmental Studies - University of California, Berkeley. 2017-12-12. Archived from the original on 2021-04-29. Retrieved 2021-08-01.
- ^ a b "Matthew Karp". The Nation. 2017-03-13. Archived from the original on 2021-07-25. Retrieved 2021-08-01.
- ^ a b c d Israeli, Alec (2020-02-27). "Political Revolutions, Then and Now: An Interview with Professor Matthew Karp". The Princeton Progressive. Archived from the original on 2021-04-29. Retrieved 2021-08-01.
- ^ "The New World Order - Boston Review". Boston Review. Retrieved 2023-02-16.
- ^ Karp, Matthew (2022-04-07). "His Whiskers Trimmed". London Review of Books. Vol. 44, no. 7. ISSN 0260-9592. Retrieved 2023-02-16.