FILE – In this Oct. 12, 2005 file photo, David Graeber, associate professor of anthropology at Yale University reacts during class, in New Haven, Conn. Graeber, who worked on the initial stages of the Occupy Wall Street movement, has died in Venice, his agent Melissa Flashman said on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020. He was 59. A professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics, Graeber studied anarchism and anti-capitalist movement, and challenged the world to consider the plight of the Kurds in the Middle East. Born in New York, he taught at Yale University before moving on to Goldsmiths, University of London and finally the London School of Economics.