Rowan Powell

User Rowan Powell

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Ph.D. Student

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Rowan completed their MA Art and Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London with a first class honors. They have co-founded various longrunning publications and presses, including STRIKE!, PSS PRESS, and Paperwork Magazine. 

Political Theory ∙ Critical Race and Ethnic Studies ∙ Feminist Studies ∙ Trans Studies ∙ 
Anti-colonial thought ∙ Intellectual History ∙ British Atlantic ∙ Politics of British History ∙ Queer Theory  ∙ Early Modern ∙ Histories of Science ∙ Environmental History ∙ Artist Moving Image ∙ Art Writing ∙ Histories of Resistance 

Land, Race, Property, Movement History, Labor History, Organising History, Environmental History, Histories of Science, Philosophies of History, Political Film

Huntington Library Short Term Fellowship 2024-2025

Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures 2023-2024

Politics Department, UCSC Archival Research Grant Summer 2024

Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Travel Award 2024

Early stage scholars Trans and Queer Environmental Writing Retreat Santa Fe New Mexico 2023

Science Research Council (SSRC) Dissertation Proposal Development fellowship 2021

Regent's Fellowship 2018-2025

The Third Person, at the Museum of Art History, Santa Cruz, 2025, forthcoming

Trans* temporal Resistances at Transition Times: Re-Membering Anti-Carceral Resistance in the Tenderloin at The Tenderloin Museum, May 2024

 

Black Safari; Myth, Memory and the Liverpool Leeds Canal at The Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies., April 2025

Against trans*mutation: State formation in Early Modern England at the American Anthropological Association as part of Planting, draining, claiming: The rooting and rerouting of wetlands, woodlands, marshes, and lakes., November 2024

Domesticating Narratives of the Diggers at the Association of Political Theory., November 2024

John Evelyn: Planting an English Eden at North American Conference on British Studies., November 2024

Trans* temporal Resistances at Transition Times: Re-Membering Anti-Carceral Resistance in the Tenderloin., May 2024

NonSynchronous Greens: a history of trespass and transportation in the English countryside at MPSA., April 2024 

Alchemical crossings and taxonomic contaminations in Early-Modern England at Queer and Trans Philologies, Cambridge, UK., 2024 

Discussant for (B)ordering Britain with Nadine El-Enany, Legal Studies Program UC Santa Cruz., 2021

Time, Property, Subject: Ambivalences of modernity in John Locke's Second Treaties of Government at the Association for Political Theory Conference .,2021

Wood, Theft and Colonial Subjecthood across Britain and its colonies 1650-1750 at Law and Society Conference: Panel on Colonial Legacies of Violence and Dispossession., 2021

Trans histories, methods workshop at The London Free School of Applied Critical and Feminist Theory held at SOAS London., 2018

 

 

Among the Trees, Dope Magazine. Issue 25. 2024

 

Imperialism and the Diggers, STIR, 2022 www.stirtoaction.com/articles/imperialism-and-the-diggers

 

Along a line a leap, a landing in We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics. Nightboat. 2020. Edited by Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel nightboat.org/book/we-want-it-all

 

THE _ _ _ JUMPED OVER THE _ _ for Boundary and Gesture series at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK 2019

www.wysingartscentre.org/archive/
exhibitions/boundary_gesture/2019

 

Editorial statement and Editor at Archipelago Journal of Political Thought, Goldsmiths University of London Issue 4:2017-2018
 ‘Melancholia’ beingres.org/2017/03/20/1262/

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