Tracie Matysik is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. She works in the field of modern European intellectual history, with a particular focus on the evolution of secularism as a social movement. At present she is working on a book manuscript provisionally entitled "When Spinoza Met Marx: Experiements in Democratic Activity, 1830-2000. She is the author of Reforming the Moral Subject: Ethics and Sexuality in Central Europe, 1890-1930 (Cornell University Press), and is co-editor German Modernities from Wilhelm to Weimar: A Contest of Futures (Bloomsbury Press). In addition, she has written articles on the histories of psychoanalysis, secularism, subjectivity, international activism, and Spinozism. In 2016 she Tracie Matysik is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. She works in the field of modern European intellectual history, with a particular focus on the evolution of secularism as a social movement. At present she is working on a book manuscript provisionally entitled "When Spinoza Met Marx: Experiements in Democratic Activity, 1830-2000. She is the author of Reforming the Moral Subject: Ethics and Sexuality in Central Europe, 1890-1930 (Cornell University Press), and is co-editor German Modernities from Wilhelm to Weimar: A Contest of Futures (Bloomsbury Press). In addition, she has written articles on the histories of psychoanalysis, secularism, subjectivity, international activism, and Spinozism. In 2016 she became co-editor of the journal Modern Intellectual History. ...more