Mark Krasovic

Mark Krasovic received his PhD in American Studies from Yale University in 2008. His research and teaching interests center on the cultural and political history of the modern United States and the public arts and humanities. His first book,The Newark Frontier: Community Action in the Great Society (University of Chicago Press, 2016) examines how 1960s liberalism’s experimentation with governing structures – experiments guided by an ethic of community participation and sometimes control – created novel alliances among government officials, academics, and local Newarkers to confront and struggle over the perceived crisis of America’s cities. The manuscript is based on his dissertation, which was the honorable mention finalist for the American Studies Association’s Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize. He regularly teaches courses on modern US cultural and political history, racial justice in US history, various topics in Newark history (including 1967 Newark uprising and “Newark in Maps”). He often co-teaches “Local Citienship in a Global World,” the core class for RU-N’s Honors Living-Learning Community.