Stephen Duncombe is an associate professor at New York University’s Gallatin School in the department of Media, Culture and Communications and is a lifelong political activist. He is the author, editor, co-author and co-editor of six books, including Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy; Notes From Underground: Zines and the Politics of Underground Culture; The Bobbed Haired Bandit: Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York; the Cultural Resistance Reader; White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race; and (Open) Utopia. He lives in New York City.