Christian Parenti

His books include: Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (2000), a survey of the rise of the prison industrial complex from the Nixon through Reagan Eras and into the present., a study of surveillance and control in modern society., is an account of the United States occupation of Iraq. In, Parenti links the implications of climate change with social and political unrest in mid-latitude regions of the world. Parenti has also reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ivory Coast and China. Parenti"s writing is usually published in The Nation, and he frequently appears on Doug Henwood"s radio show, Behind The News, on KPFA in Berkeley, to discuss his work. Parenti"s book Tropic of Chaos was influential in making the recent Public Broadcasting Service documentary "Extreme Realities." Parenti appears extensively in the documentary as a talking head and in vérité footage reporting. He also writes for many other publications, including the London Review of Books, Mother Jones and Condé Nast Traveler. He was a visiting fellow at City University of New York"s Center for Place, Culture and Politics, as well as a Soros Senior Justice Fellow. Parenti has taught at the New College of California and at Saint Mary"s College in Moraga, California. He currently teaches in the Liberal Studies program at New York University. Parenti is the son of Michael Parenti and Susan Parenti. Susan is an artist who lives in Vermont. He attended Buxton School in Williamstown, Massachusetts, the New School for Social Research in New York, and the London School of Economics, where he earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology and Geography. He divides his time between Brattleboro, Vermont, and New York City.

Christian Parenti

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Academic and Journalist

Education

Buxton School; The New School. London School of Economics.

Career

His books include: Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (2000), a survey of the rise of the prison industrial complex from the Nixon through Reagan Eras and into the present., a study of surveillance and control in modern society., is an account of the United States occupation of Iraq.

In, Parenti links the implications of climate change with social and political unrest in mid-latitude regions of the world.

Parenti has also reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ivory Coast and China. Parenti"s writing is usually published in The Nation, and he frequently appears on Doug Henwood"s radio show, Behind The News, on KPFA in Berkeley, to discuss his work.

Parenti"s book Tropic of Chaos was influential in making the recent Public Broadcasting Service documentary "Extreme Realities." Parenti appears extensively in the documentary as a talking head and in vérité footage reporting. He also writes for many other publications, including the London Review of Books, Mother Jones and Condé Nast Traveler.

He was a visiting fellow at City University of New York"s Center for Place, Culture and Politics, as well as a Soros Senior Justice Fellow.

Parenti has taught at the New College of California and at Saint Mary"s College in Moraga, California. He currently teaches in the Liberal Studies program at New York University. Parenti is the son of Michael Parenti and Susan Parenti.

Susan is an artist who lives in Vermont.

He attended Buxton School in Williamstown, Massachusetts, the New School for Social Research in New York, and the London School of Economics, where he earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology and Geography. He divides his time between Brattleboro, Vermont, and New York City.

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