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Luke Elliott-Negri is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). His academic interests center on political parties, labor movements, and social movements within social science. He studied Sociology at Boston College. Elliott-Negri has engaged in academic governance and labor education, serving as chapter chair for the Professional Staff Congress (PSC) at the CUNY Graduate Center and holding a position at the Murphy Institute for Worker Education.

A key contribution to his field is the co-authored book Gains and Losses: How Protestors Win and Lose, published by Oxford University Press in March 2022 with Isaac Jabola-Carolus, Marc Kagan, Jessica Mahlbacher, Manès Weisskircher, and Anna Zhelnina. This work presents cutting-edge theory on social movement consequences, examining trade-offs protestors face in altering their world. It analyzes why some movements impact more than others by dissecting component parts and recurrent strategic interactions, revealing packages of gains and losses. The book covers six empirical cases worldwide: Seattle's $15-an-hour minimum wage conflict; participatory budgeting's establishment in New York City; a democratic insurgency in the Transport Workers' Union; a communist party's vote-gaining and housing-protection efforts in Graz, Austria; internal tensions leading to Hong Kong's umbrella occupation; and Russia's electoral reform movement via Alexei Navalny. It explores diverse political and protest players and multiple strategic arenas, noting remarkable gains alongside long-term losses.

Elliott-Negri has produced 19 research works totaling 756 citations. Prominent publications include 'Gender, Class, and the Gig Economy: The Case of Platform-Based Food Delivery' (Critical Sociology, 2020; co-authors Ruth Milkman, Kathleen Griesbach, Adam Reich), probing gender and class in platform labor. Additional research addresses algorithmic control in food delivery, strategic dynamics in Seattle's Fight for 15, and participatory budgeting institutionalization in New York City. He reviewed Steve Early's Save Our Unions in Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare (2014).