Joseph Fronczak
I study twentieth-century United States social and political history, though my dissertation has led me farther afield. I am writing a social movement history of the Popular Front, which was a global phenomenon of antifascism and experimentation in forms of radical democracy in the 1930s. I attempt to make sense of the Popular Front movement as a whole, yet also examine some of its flash points, from factory occupations in Paris to general strikes in Minneapolis, culminating in the Spanish Civil War.
Previously a grade- and high-school teacher, I have, at Yale, taught sections for my advisor Glenda Gilmore's course, United States Politics and Society, 1900-1945. I have also taught nineteenth- and twentieth-century European history at Oxford University.
