Kenyon Zimmer

Kenyon Zimmer is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington specializing in immigration and radical political movements. His research focuses on Yiddish and Italian anarchism in America from the 1880s-1940s, examining how immigrant communities developed transnational collective identities opposed to both American and Old World nationalism.

Zimmer's work analyzes how anarchists in San Francisco, New York, and New Jersey maintained radical cosmopolitan outlooks that embraced diversity across ethnic and racial divides. His book Immigrants against the State traces the movement's evolution through World War I and the Spanish Civil War, showing how anarchism provided an alternative to nationalist ideologies despite ultimately being unable to withstand Americanism.