Dana Kopel

Biography

Dana Kopel is a PhD candidate in US history. Her research centers on left, labor, and radical/social movement organizing in the US during the late twentieth century. In particular, her dissertation focuses on a 1975 strike by staff at the Los Angeles Gay Community Services Center, connecting it to broader changes to work and worker organizing, the state, social movements, and the US left in the early years of neoliberalism.

She is also interested in worker organizing in the cultural sector, and her writing on labor and contemporary art has been widely published.