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Alex Mazzaferro is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. His scholarship focuses on early American literature, interweaving history and political thought with an emphasis on how these fields interact with scientific developments. His teaching and research examine fundamental political concepts shaped by significant epistemological shifts that occurred during the early modern period, particularly the Scientific Revolution. Mazzaferro employs a transatlantic and circum-Caribbean approach that questions and revises Eurocentric intellectual histories by foregrounding the impact of New World colonialism. Currently, he is working on a book titled 'New Enterprise: Innovation, Prohibition, New Science Politics in Colonial America,' which explores the complexities surrounding innovation in the context of early American colonialism. He has received research support from various prestigious institutions, including the American Council of Learned Societies and the Mellon Foundation. Additionally, he has held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Chicago's Institute for the Formation of Knowledge and at Rutgers University. His teaching encompasses colonial early U.S. literary history, political philosophy, and the intersections of race and technology in early America.
University of California, Los Angeles • Los Angeles, CA
Teaching and research focused on early American literature, political philosophy, and the intersections of technology and race.
Department of Economics admits primarily for the PhD program.