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Credits for Anarchist Interventions
Maia Hamnath
!\Iaia Ramnath is a teacher, writer, activist, and dancer/
aerialist living in New Yo rk City. She has been involved in
variolls manifestations of global justice, anti-imperialist, and
Palestine solidarity organizing for many years. Maia attended
graduate school at the University of California at Santa Cruz
(UCSC), earning a PhD in history, though it appears in retrospect
that she spent most of the time on a picket line. She
has taught courses at UCSC and New Yo rk University on
global history, modern South Asian history, and anticolonial
radical movements. Maia is the author of The Haj to Utopia:
Ho w the Ghadar Movement Charted Global Radifalism and
Attempted to OverthroUJ the Br'itish Empire (University of
California Press, 20 1 1 )-in many ways a companioll volume
to this one. She was a member of the Free Radio Santa Cruz
and original Bluestockings bookstore collectives, and is currently
a member of the Institute fo r Anarchist Studies board
and Historians against War steering committee. Finally,
as cofounder and director of a multidisciplinary performing
arts group sometimes called Constellation Moving
Company, she hopes some day to "use her powers fo r good"
like radical Left circus artists Dharamvir Singh and John S.
Clarke did a century ago.