Barbara Epstein is a professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she teaches on the history of social movements and theory relevant to social change. Her books include Political Protest and Cultural Revolution: Nonviolent Direct Action in the 1970s and the 1980s (Univ. of California Press) and The Minsk Ghetto, 1941-1943: Jewish Resistance and Soviet Internationalism (Univ. of California Press). Between the 1970s and 1990s, Prof. Epstein was a member of the editorial collective of Socialist Revolution, later renamed Socialist Review. She is currently at work on a study of socialist-humanist thought and politics after World War II.