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 Email 973 720 3047 210 Atrium By appointment
