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, urban history, and the public arts and humanities. His first book,The Newark Frontier: Community Action in the Great Society, was published by the University of Chicago Press in spring 2016. It examines how the structures of 1960s liberalism – structures that brought together government officials, academics, and local Newarkers in new and complicated ways – confronted 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.

His current book project explores federally funded arts projects in the 1960s, especially those funded by the President’s Committee on Juvenile Delinquency, the War on Poverty, and the Model Cities Program. This research has been supported by a Nancy Weiss Malkiel Junior Faculty Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

Dr. Krasovic also serves as the interim director of the Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University-Newark, where he was the 2008-2010 Geraldine R. Dodge Postdoctoral Fellow. At the Price Institute, he has served as the local Newark coordinator for the federal Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, a cosponsor of the “This is Newark!” Public Symposium on Urban Design, a facilitator for the New Jersey Council for the Humanities’ statewide film series, and the co-organizer of the Ironbound Environmental Justice History and Resource Center. He also serves on the executive board of the Newark History Society, the Education Committee of the Newark Museum, and the steering committee of the Northeast Public Humanities Consortium.