Robert Kirsch

Manuscripts

1. Kirsch, R. E. & Ray, E. (in production for Spring 2025). Be Prepared: The Theory and Politics of Doomsday Prepping in the United States. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. [50% effort]
2. Kirsch, R. (under contract for late 2025). Modern Monetary Theory & Marxism. London, UK: Routledge.
3. Chandler, Jennifer L.S., and Kirsch, R. (2018). Critical leadership theory: Integrating transdisciplinary perspectives. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. [50% effort]

Edited Volumes

1. Hines, T., Jansen, P.E., Kirsch, R.E., & Maley, T. (Eds). (2023). The Dialectics of Liberation in Dark Times. Palgrave Series in Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. [30% effort]
2. Kirsch, R. (Ed.). (2020). Limits to Terrestrial Extraction. Routledge Focus Series on Environment and Sustainability. New York, NY: Routledge.
3. Kirsch, R. and Surak, S. (Eds.). (2017). Marcuse in the twenty-first century: Radical politics, critical theory, and revolutionary praxis. New York, NY: Routledge. [80% effort]

Refereed Articles

1. Kirsch, R.E. (accepted for 2024). Doomsday prepping as prophecy, predestination, and media spectacle. Apocalyptica 3(1).
2. Trinh, M.P., Kirsch, R., Castillo, E.A., & Bates, D.E. (2022). Forging paths to interdisciplinary research for early career academics. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 21(2), 318-385. https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2019.0386 [25% effort]
3. Kirsch, R. (2020). Manufacturing alienation in the Bakken: Toward a political economy of extraction. Theory & Event 23(1), 231-247. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/747104.
4. Posselt, J., Chen, J., Dixon, G., Jackson, J. F.L., Kirsch, R., Nuñez A., & Teppen, B. (2019). Research and theory advancing inclusion in the geosciences: An overview of the NSF-GOLD program. Journal of Geoscience Education, (67)4, 313-319. doi: 10.1080/10899995.2019.1647007. [20% effort]
5. Kirsch, R. (2019). You can’t handicraft the apocalypse: The invidious consequences of “opting out.” New Political Science, 41(4), 529-543. https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2019.1686740.
6. Kirsch, R. (2018). Focusing on leadership to improve the geosciences. Eos, 99. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EO097357.
7. Kirsch, R. (2017). Toward a theory of economic development as a mode of flash capitalism. Fast Capitalism, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.32855/fcapital.201701.011
8. Kirsch, R. (2016). The “Digital Revolution” reconsidered. New Political Science, 38(1), 100-115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2015.1125635.

Book Chapters

1. Kirsch, R.E. (in production). Marcuse the American. In E. Altheman, J. Fast, N. Mayberry, and S. Simpson (Eds.), The Marcusean Mind. London, UK: Routledge.
2. Kirsch, R.E. (2023). Is transformational leadership one-dimensional? In C.L. Lowery, M. Hess, C. Gautam, & R. White (Eds.), Educational leadership and the critical theorists: Toward a critical theory of school administration. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic Press.
3. Kirsch, R.E. (2023). Reigniting racket theory: Horkheimer’s unfinished project and Marcuse’s engagement with American institutionalism. In T. Hines, P-E. Jansen, R.E. Kirsch & T. Maley (Eds.), The dialectics of liberation in dark times: Marcuse’s thought in the neoliberal era. New York, NY: Springer.
4. Kirsch, R.E. (2020). Mumford and Bataille: Toward a political economy of energy consumption. In R.E. Kirsch (Ed.), Limits to Terrestrial Extraction. Routledge Focus Series on Environment and Sustainability. New York, NY: Routledge.
5. Chandler, Jennifer L.S., and Kirsch, R. (2017). Addressing race and culture within a critical leadership approach. In J.L. Chin, J.E. Trimble, & J.E. Garcia (Eds.), Global and culturally diverse leaders and leadership: New dimensions and challenges for business, education and society (307-322). Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing Limited. [50% effort]

Book Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries

1. Kirsch, R. E. (2023). Herbert Marcuse. In The Encyclopedia of Critical Political Science. Barrow, C. (Ed.). Edward Elgar Publishing.
2. Kirsch, R. E. (2023). Student Debt. In The Encyclopedia of Critical Political Science. Barrow, C. (Ed.). Edward Elgar Publishing.
3. Kirsch, R. (2019). Fugitive democracy: And other essays [Review of the book Fugitive democracy: And other essays by S. Wolin]. New Political Science 41(2), 372-374. https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2018.1528676.
4. Kirsch, R. (2017). Austro-Marxism. In The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Turner, B.S. (Ed.). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118430873.est0568.
5. Kirsch, R. (2015). Capital in the twenty-first century [Review of the book Capital in the twenty-first century by T. Piketty]. New Political Science 37(1), 147-149. https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2014.949442.
6. Kirsch, R. (2015). Forging capitalism: Rogues, swindlers, frauds, and the rise of modern finance [Review of the book Forging capitalism: Rogues, swindlers, frauds, and the rise of modern finance by I. Klaus]. H-Socialisms, H-Net Reviews. https://www.hnet.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=43082.

Other Publications and Non-author Contributions

1. Kirsch, R.E. (accepted) Introduction to “The influence of German emigration on American intellectual life: Philosophy and sociology” by Herbert Marcuse. Trans. M.P. Dunn. Contemporary Political Theory.
2. American Society for Engineering Education. (2020). Cultivating Diversity Champions: Practices and Lessons from Two NSF Geoscience Opportunities for Leadership in Diversity (GOLD) Projects. Washington, DC. ISBN: 978-0-87823-250-5. https://www.asee.org/documents/publications/reports/2019-Cultivating-Diversity-Champions-GOLD.pdf
3. Huntington, K.W., & Klepsis, K.A. (2018). Challenges and opportunities for research in tectonics: Understanding deformation and the processes that link Earth systems, from geologic time to human time. A community vision document submitted to the U.S. National Science Foundation. Seattle, WA: University of Washington. ResearchWorks Archive: http://hdl.handle.net/1773/40754.
4. Derra, S. (2017). Project aims to broaden participation in the geosciences. ASU Now: Access, Excellence, Impact. https://asunow.asu.edu/20170329-project-aims-broaden-participation-geosciences
5. Kirsch, R., & Surak, S. (2016). Introduction to the special issue. New Political Science, 38(4), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2016.1228589. [80% effort]
6. Kirsch, R. (2016). Introduction to “The rationality of philosophy” by Herbert Marcuse. New Political Science, 38(4), 476-477. https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2016.1228576.