The Origins of Western Marxism & the Colonial Question

media release: This event is presented by the Havens Wright Center for Social Justice in collaboration with the Center for the Humanities and the Department of History at UW-Madison.

Gabriel Rockhill is a philosopher, cultural critic, and activist. He is the Founding Director of the Critical Theory Workshop / Atelier de Théorie Critique, Professor of Philosophy and Global Interdisciplinary Studies at Villanova University, Director of the Cultural Studies Program at Villanova, and Research Associate at the Laboratoire d’anthropologie politique – LAP (EHESS Paris). He is the author or editor of twelve books, including most recently Requiem for French Theory with Aymeric Monville (Monthly Review Press, 2026) and Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? (Monthly Review Press, 2025). He is one of the Editors-in-Chief of the World Marxist Review and a co-director of two book series: AIM—Anti-Imperialist Marxism (Iskra) and Studies in AIM (De Gruyter Brill).