Max Chapnick

Max Chapnick is a research fellow at the New York Historical. Last year, he was a Postdoctoral Teaching Associate at Northeastern University, and he recently defended his dissertation “Wild Science: Radical Politics and Rejected Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Fiction” at Boston University. Before that he earned a B.S. in Physics, studied creative writing on a Fulbright scholarship, and worked in communications for the non-profit GiveDirectly.

He has taught courses on first-year writing, environmental literature, science fiction, and the political history of Boston.