Joshua Bloom is Associate Professor in Sociology at University of Pittsburgh and Director of the Center for Emancipatory Research. He studies the dynamics of insurgent practice and social transformation. Bloom’s research on social movements, race, and labor has been published in the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, and other venues. His books include Black against Empire: the History and Politics of the Black Panther Party (University of California Press, 2016), which won the American Book Award; Working for Justice: the LA Model of Organizing and Advocacy (Cornell University Press, 2010); Freedom! (Levine Querido, 2022); and most recently Contested Legitimacy in Ferguson: Nine Hours on Canfield Drive (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Before earning a PhD, Bloom spent many years as an anti-racist organizer.