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Dewar MacLeod

Professor • Department of History, Liberal Studies & Philosophy

Dewar MacLeod is Professor of History, specializing in popular culture, American Studies, and U.S. foreign policy. He is the author of Making the Scene in the Garden State: Popular Music in New Jersey from Edison to Springsteen and Beyond (2020) and Kids of the Black Hole: Punk Rock in Postsuburban California (2010), the first study of punk by a professional historian. His most recent book The Who’s “Tommy," Trauma, and Postwar Youth Culture was published by SUNY Press in 2023.

Degrees

PhD History, City University of New York, Graduate School New York, NY

Specialization

Popular culture, American Studies, and U.S. foreign policy

Representative Publications


“Kids of the Black Hole”: Punk Rock in Postsuburban California; Oklahoma University Press; 2010
https://www.oupress.com/9780806140414/kids-of-the-black-hole/


Making the Scene in the Garden State: Popular Music in New Jersey from Edison to Springsteen and Beyond; New Brunswick, NJ; Rutgers University Press; 2020
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/making-the-scene-in-the-garden-state/9780813574660

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