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Professor 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

• 听(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

• 鈥淥f Violence and Mourning: Sovereignty, Containment, and Modern Governmentality,鈥� Journal of Social Philosophy 50.1(2019): 113-126
• 鈥淐ulture and Crisis in the Age of Tolerance,鈥� Journal of Language,听Literature, and Culture 64.3 (2017): 213-227
• 鈥淩ethinking the Nation and the Body Politic:听 The Wrestler and the Demise听of American Exceptionalism,鈥� in E. Abele and J. Gronbeck-Tedesco, eds., Screening Images of American Masculinity in the Age of Postfeminism听
• 鈥凄辞肠耻尘别苍迟颈苍驳 The Crime of Cuba: An Am茅rican Left and the 1933 Cuban听Revolution,鈥� American Quarterly 66.3 (2014): 633-66

Recent Web Articles

• 鈥�,鈥� TalkingPointsMemo.com, November 26, 2021
• 鈥�,鈥� TheHill.com, July 13, 2021
• “It’s not Trump, It’s Education,” Ozy.com, September 19, 2019
• 鈥淭rump鈥檚 Losing Gamble on Cuba Could Help Venezuela鈥檚 Maduro,鈥澨齇zy.com, March 11, 2019
• Washington听Post, June 26, 2018
• The National听Memo, February 8, 2017
• ,听November 28, 2016
• , Weekend听Edition, January 15-17, 2016

Recent Book Reviews

• Review of听State of Disaster: The Failure of U.S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change, by Maria Cristina Garcia,听Journal of American Ethnic History听43.2: 129-130.
• Review of听From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity, by Anne Garland Mahler, American Historical Review听125.1: 208-209.
• Review of America鈥檚 Forgotten Colony: Cuba鈥檚 Isle of Pines, by Michael E.听Neagle, The Americas: The Quarterly Review of Latin American History听75.4 (2018): 804-80
• Review of Fighting over Fidel, by Rafael Rojas, Journal of American Studies听51.2 (2017): E27