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Kyle Riismandel
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Welcome! I am a cultural historian of cities, suburbs, media, and technology in recent American history.
I work as an Associate Teaching Professor in the Federated Department of History at
Rutgers-Newark
/
New Jersey Institute of Technology
and Director of the
Graduate Program in American Studies
.
I served as the President of the Newark Chapter of our AAUP-AFT union. If you have questions about our newly ratified contract, please let me know.
See my courses and syllabi
here
.
Available now! Grab a copy for yourself or ask your local library acquire one.
My book is
Neighborhood of Fear: The Suburban Crisis in American Culture, 1975-2001
Bookshop.org
Johns Hopkins University Press
Smithsonian Scholars chose
Neighborhood of Fear
as a
favorite book of 2020
.
Hear me discuss
Neighborhood of Fear
on the
New Books Network Podcast
.
Read about how suburban crime culture of the 1980s led us to Ring, NextDoor, and Stand Your Ground
here
.
Feel free to
email me
with any questions about my research or the graduate program in American Studies at Rutgers-Newark.
I am also available for virtual talks, classroom visits, interviews, and podcasts.
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