Rene Yaroshevsky

Rene Yaroshevsky is pursuing an M.A. in Political Science. His research interests focus on the politics of nation-building, coloniality, ethnic identity, and genocide. Hoping to become a candidate for a Ph.D. in Political Science, he intends to explore two imaginations of the Jewish community that operate at cross purposes and engender divergent political outcomes: Zionism and aliyah (the immigration of the Jewish people to Eretz Yisrael as a form of cultural ascent) versus Bundism and doykeit (the hereness of the Jewish people in the land they currently inhabit). For the fall 2024 semester, he is serving as a Teaching Assistant under Dr. Marjorie Castle for the course Democracy, Sovereignty, and the European Union at Barnard College.

Mr. Yaroshevsky received a B.A. in Political Science and History, with minors in Jewish Studies and Honors in the Social Sciences, from the Macaulay Honors College and Queens College, CUNY. His undergraduate thesis, titled Labouring for Neoliberalism: How the Labour Party of the United Kingdom Abandoned Its Social Democratic Tradition, was a process-tracing analysis of the political party's ideological and policy shifts since the government of Clement Attlee. He has also conducted in-house research for the West Africa Centre for Counter-Extremism and Justice Centre Hong Kong.

Mr. Yaroshevsky's awards include the Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship, Molly Weinstein Memorial Prize, Michael Harrington Memorial Scholarship, Vasiliki Tsilas Prize, and Don Shaffer Student Peacemaker Award. His proudest achievement was organizing the CUNY Summit for Peace & Justice at the Macaulay Honors College.