Geo Maher, PhD

Geo Maher is Coordinator of the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction in Philadelphia. He has taught previously at Vassar College, San Quentin State Prison, and the Venezuelan School of Planning in Caracas, and has held visiting positions at the College of William and Mary’s Decolonizing Humanities Project, NYU’s Hemispheric Institute, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He his co-editor of the Duke University Press series Radical Américas and author of five books: We Created Chávez (Duke, 2013), Building the Commune (Verso, 2016), Decolonizing Dialectics (Duke, 2017), A World Without Police (Verso, 2021), and Anticolonial Eruptions (University of California, 2022). He is also co-editor of Reading Black Reconstruction Today (University of California, 2026) and Insurrection (Oxford, 2027).