"[11] In January 2018, Cicarriello-Maher announced on Facebook that he was now a visiting scholar at New York University's Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics.
[10] While in England, Ciccariello-Maher was a member of the Cambridge collective Anti-Capitalist Action, and was later arrested during the 20 March 2003 anti-war protest known as "Day X" that marked[clarification needed] the beginning of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
[12][13][14] When four members were rusticated from King's College, Cambridge in 2002 for their participation in a squatted social center, Ciccariello-Maher co-authored an appeal document that resulted in their reinstatement.
[16] In Oakland, he was arrested for involvement in the protests that followed the shooting death of Oscar Grant by transit officer Johannes Mehserle.
[19][non-primary source needed] Ciccariello-Maher was active on social media, where his statements have created controversy, including calls for his dismissal.
In 2015, he tweeted that a South Carolina school police officer, who lost his job after body-slamming a black female student during an arrest, should be done "like Old Yeller.
He criticized Drexel's response, which "amounts to caving to the truly reprehensible movements and organizations that I was critiquing... White supremacy is on the rise, and we must fight it by any means.
"[27] Some critics dismissed the Drexel statement as a misinterpretation of the tweet,[25] and for infringing on Ciccariello-Maher's academic freedom and due process.