Zachary James Bauerle

I am interested in the history of radicalism, revolutions, labor and working-class history, and political history. I focus primarily on the United States in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, but I am also interested in the connections between American radicalism and politics with similar movements and ideologies that originated in Europe such as Marxist socialism. I received my B.A. in History and Political Science with a minor in International Studies (2021) from La Roche University in Pittsburgh, PA. I then graduated with my M.A. in History (2024) from Duquesne University, also in Pittsburgh. While at Duquesne, I wrote my major seminar paper on the influence of anarchism within the late-nineteenth century labor movement and the competition it faced from more conservative trade unionism in the city of Pittsburgh, specifically focusing on the life and career of the German-born anarchist Joseph Fricke.

At Pitt, I hope to continue to study the connections between the radicalism and political theory of the United States and Europe. I am especially interested in examining cities and towns in the American Midwest and Mid-Atlantic as places that were major hubs for the development of revolutionary thought, often in collaboration and/or competition with their counterparts in European cities like Paris.

Advisors: Alexandra Finley and Eladio Bobadilla