Andrew Palella

Research Assistant

Andrew Palella

Contact

Stokes Hall South 315-D

Email: palella@bc.edu

ORCID 0009-0008-4224-0391

Education

  • B.S. in U.S. History from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point
  • M.A. in History from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Courses

American Military History

Research Interests

20th century political extremism in the United States, federal counter-intelligence, New Deal liberalism, 20th century intelligence operations and covert action, historical memory, accelerationism

Advisor

Charles Gallagher

Department

History

Biography

Andrew Palella studies the history of political extremism and its interactions with the security state in the United States during the 20th century. He is also interested in the historical memory of such movements and plans to research American extremist movements in the 1930s that sought to overthrow the Roosevelt administration, as well as the autonomy with which the federal government responded to these plots.

Before attending BC, Andrew served as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army and worked in the national security sector. He also has a strong secondary interest in U.S. intelligence operations and covert action during the early years of the Cold War. Currently, he is working on a project about conspiratorial antisemitism in the U.S. intelligence community and the U.S.' first large covert action exposure in the early 1950s.

Fellowships and Awards

Clough Center for Constructional Democracy Doctoral Fellow (2024-2026)

Publications

“Toward the Galactic Imperium: The Order of Nine Angles, Cosmic Accelerationism, and the Occult Politics of Neo-Fascism,” Journal for the Study of Radicalism 18, no. 2 (Spring 2024). Forthcoming.

“The Black Legion: J. Edgar Hoover and Fascism in the Depression Era,” Journal for the Study of Radicalism 12, no. 2 (Fall 2018): 81–105.

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