About

Michael Koncewicz is a political historian who is the Associate Director of New York University’s Institute for Public Knowledge. He previously worked for the National Archives at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, contributing to the museum’s nonpartisan Watergate exhibit. More recently, he was a curator at the Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University, one of the more renowned archives that focus on the history of labor and the left. He is currently working on the authorized biography of longtime progressive activist and legislator Tom Hayden, scheduled to be published by the University of California Press in 2026.

Koncewicz’s first book, They Said ‘No’ to Nixon: Republicans Who Stood Up to the President’s Abuses of Power, was published in 2018. Culling from previously unpublished excerpts from the tapes and recently released materials that expose the thirty-seventh president’s uncensored views, the book reveals how Republican party members remained loyal civil servants in the face of Nixon’s attempts to expand the imperial presidency. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and The Washington Post.