Portrait of Zachary Whitworth

Zachary Whitworth

PhD Student
History
zwh@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2026: TBD (or by appointment)
Research Interests: Revolutions & utopian studies, communalism, social ecology, 19th–20th century history of Russia and the US, history of Oregon, Russian-American Jewish history

Biography

I am a second-year PhD student in History and social ecologist from Southern Oregon. I was born in the Umpqua Valley and grew up between Roseburg, Glide, and Ashland. I have also previously lived in Greensboro, North Carolina as well as Los Angeles, California, where I respectively worked for the Elsewhere Museum and the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive. I have formal education in art history, art & social practice, museum studies, design & media arts, and social philosophy, with further training in digital information and archival studies.

I am a co-steward of the Community Reading Group, a weekly study circle focused on the concept of community as a political category, supported by the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive. I am also affiliated with the Institute for Social Ecology.

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Education

2021 | Certificate | Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought | The European Graduate School

2017–2019 | BFA | Art Practices | Portland State University

2014–2017 | Coursework | Art & Art History | Southern Oregon University

Additional coursework...
The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, The Institute for Social Ecology, The Jewish Museum Virtual Summer Institute, The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies, The Outer Institute, The University of California Los Angeles, The University of the Underground, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

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