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John Gronbeck-TedescoProfessor of American Studies

Year Joined RCNJ: 2010

Contact Information

  • Phone: (201) 684-7241
  • Email: jgronbec@ramapo.edu
  • Office: B-214
  • Office Hours: On Sabbatical for Spring 2026

Education:

  • PhD. American Studies, University of Texas at Austin 2009

Courses Offered:

  • Pursuing the American Dream
  • Introduction to American Studies
  • American Empire
  • Cultures of the American Left

Teaching Interests:

  • U.S. Cultural History
  • Race and Ethnicity
  • U.S. Foreign Relations
  • Social Movements

Research Interests:

  • U.S. & Latin American Politics
  • Culture in the 20th Century

Scholarly Activity:

Books
  • Ìý(Potomac Books)
  • (Cambridge University Press, 2015; pbk in 2017)
  • , ed.,with Elizabeth Abele (Lexington Books, 2015; pbk in 2017)
Recent Journal Articles and Book Chapters
  • “Of Violence and Mourning: Sovereignty, Containment, and Modern Governmentality,â€� Journal of Social Philosophy 50.1(2019): 113-126
  • “Culture and Crisis in the Age of Tolerance,â€� Journal of Language,ÌýLiterature, and Culture 64.3 (2017): 213-227
  • “Rethinking the Nation and the Body Politic:Ìý The Wrestler and the DemiseÌýof American Exceptionalism,â€� in E. Abele and J. Gronbeck-Tedesco, eds., Screening Images of American Masculinity in the Age of PostfeminismÌý
  • â€Æà´Ç³¦³Ü³¾±ð²Ô³Ù¾±²Ô²µ The Crime of Cuba: An Américan Left and the 1933 CubanÌýRevolution,â€� American Quarterly 66.3 (2014): 633-66
Recent Web Articles
  • “,â€� TalkingPointsMemo.com, November 26, 2021
  • “,â€� TheHill.com, July 13, 2021
  • “It’s not Trump, It’s Education,” Ozy.com, September 19, 2019
  • “Trump’s Losing Gamble on Cuba Could Help Venezuela’s Maduro,â€�ÌýOzy.com, March 11, 2019
  • WashingtonÌýPost, June 26, 2018
  • The NationalÌýMemo, February 8, 2017
  • ,ÌýNovember 28, 2016
  • , WeekendÌýEdition, January 15-17, 2016
Recent Book Reviews
  • Review ofÌýState of Disaster: The Failure of U.S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change, by Maria Cristina Garcia,ÌýJournal of American Ethnic HistoryÌý43.2: 129-130.
  • Review ofÌýFrom the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity, by Anne Garland Mahler, American Historical ReviewÌý125.1: 208-209.
  • Review of America’s Forgotten Colony: Cuba’s Isle of Pines, by Michael E.ÌýNeagle, The Americas: The Quarterly Review of Latin American HistoryÌý75.4 (2018): 804-80
  • Review of Fighting over Fidel, by Rafael Rojas, Journal of American StudiesÌý51.2 (2017): E27
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