Kristin Lawler

Kristin Lawler is Professor of Sociology at the University of Mount Saint Vincent in New York City. Her first book, The American Surfer: Radical Culture and Capitalism, was published by Routledge in 2011, and her most recent book, co-edited with Michael Roberts and David Cline, entitled Roll and Flow: The Cultural Politics of Surfing and Skateboarding was published in 2024 by San Diego State University Press. She also co-edited Live Theory: the Aronowitz Reader with Peter Bratsis, Bruno Gulli, and Michael Pelias; it was published by Eris Press in 2024. She is the co-editor of a 2025 special issue of the journal Sport in Society on surfing and skateboarding, in which her newest article was published. Her work appears in numerous edited collections, including Feminism and the Early Frankfurt School; Back to the 30s? Recurring Crises of Capitalism, Liberalism, and Democracy; Nietzsche and Critical Social Theory; Class: The Anthology; Living with Class; Southern California Bohemias; and The Critical Surf Studies Reader. She is a contributing member of the editorial board of the journal, Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination, where her work has also been published, and a founding member of the editorial board of the new journal Board Cultures: the International Journal of Surfing and Skateboarding Studies. She is a member of the board of directors of the Institute for the Radical Imagination, a founding member of the Surf and Skate Studies Collaborative at San Diego State University, and a member of the affiliated faculty of the Strother School of Radical Attention.

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