Jane McAlevey Residency

2025 - r.h. Lossin

R.H. Lossin is the inaugural recipient of the Jane McAlevey Residency. An an educator and writer, Lossin’s work explores themes of labor, technology, contemporary art, and American radicalism. She currently teaches courses on American history, politics, and art at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Her writing has appeared in the New York Review of Books, The Nation, New Left Review (her first essay for New Left Review was completed during a prior residency at Blue Mountain Center), and Jacobin, among others.

While at BMC, she focused on writing and editing her first book, Sabotage: The Rise and Fall of a Revolutionary Idea, an interdisciplinary study of the sabotage campaigns carried out by the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers and the Industrial Workers of the World, forthcoming from Princeton University Press.