Anthony Gronowicz
Adjunct Professor
Social Sciences, Human Services and Criminal Justice
EMAIL: agronowicz@bmcc.cuny.edu
Office: S-215
Office Hours: Tuesday: 530-630, Thursday: 1-2
Phone: +1 (212) 220-8000;ext=8208
Anthony Gronowicz has research interests in U.S. history, Western civilization, Political Science and New York City history
Expertise
U.S. Political history, U.S. history, Western Civilization and New York City history.
Degrees
PhD in History at the University of Pennsylvania (1981)
Courses Taught
- This course analyzes the societies of Western civilization from their origin to early modern times. The major social, economic, political, religious and intellectual developments are examined and their impact on the development of modern Western civilization is traced.
- This course traces the growth of the modern Western world to the present. It surveys the political, economic and social foundations of contemporary civilization.
- In this course, the history of the United States from the Colonial period to the Civil War is studied and the major political, economic, and social problems of the new nation are analyzed.
- This continued study of American history emphasizes the emergence of an industrial economy, an urban society, world responsibility and the expanded federal government.
- The history, development, and intellectual origin of American government are studied and analyzed. Special consideration is given to the structure and operation of the executive, legislative and judiciary branches, and the role of government and politics in a modern industrial society.
- This course studies the social world and how it has evolved over time, as well as how individuals are influenced and structured by social interactions in small groups and by larger social forces. The course covers major sociological theories and research methods, and key concepts such as culture, socialization, social class, race/ethnicity, gender, technology, social inequality, and social change.
- This course introduces students to the key concepts and principles of human geography. The course is designed to show how world geographic conditions such as climate, landform, natural resources, soil, space and ecology have influenced human culture and civilization over time.
Research and Projects
Publications
2022 Careless Genius: John Lennon and His Maternal Demon, Palindrome Books
2022 review of David Paul Kuhn, The Hard Hat Riot: Nixon, New York City and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution, Journal of Labor and Society, Vol. 25, July, 1-16.
2021 Last Western Empire. A History of U.S. Foreign Policy, Koba Books
2020 “Poland and the Political Economy of Foreign Intervention: White to Red—and White,” in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, 2nd edition Immanuel Ness & Zak Cope, ed. Palgrave Macmillan
2019 Oswald Garrison Villard: The Dilemmas of the Absolute Pacifist in Two World Wars (edited), Routledge
2018 Commentary Quo Vadis, Class Struggle: An Exegesis of Domenico Losurdo’s Class Struggle: A Political and Philosophical History, Journal of Labor and Society, Vol. 21, 1-14.
2018 review of James E. Lewis, Jr. The Burr Conspiracy, The Journal of American History, vol. 105 #2, 387.
2017 “The Global Significance of the Russian Revolution: Imperialism and the Socialist Resistance,” Journal of Labor and Society, Vol. 20, 349-372.
2017 “The Long History of U.S. Abuses in Korea,” Popular Resistance.org (peer- reviewed) 2015
2015 “Crushing Strikes Through the U.S. Military, 1875-1915,” Working USA. The Journal of Labor and Society, Vol.18:4
2014 “Abraham Yates, The Bloomsburg Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment Mark G. Spencer, ed. Thoemmes Press, Vol. 2, 1149-1150.
2014 “Divestment [from fossil fuels],” The BMCC Journal, Vol. 1, 26.
2012 “The Unraveling Anglo-American Imperial Project,” Global Research
2010 “Theodore Dreiser,” “F. Scott Fitzgerald,” “William Dean Howells,” “PEN,” “Political Clubs” “Bela Schick,” “John Steinbeck,” “Tontine Coffee House,” “Mark Twain,” “Upper East Side,” “Thomas Wolfe,” “Richard Wright,” “Yorkville” in The Encyclopedia of New York City (2nd revised edition) Kenneth Jackson, ed., Yale University Press, 378-379, 415-416, 624, 986, 1011-1012, 1153-1154, 1241, 1323-1324, 1340-1341, 1352, 1406, 1420, 1428-1429.
2008 review of Yonathan Eyal’s The Young America Movement and the Transformation of the Democratic Party, 1828-1861, The Journal of American History, Vol. 95 #1, 196-197.
2006 Grand Illusion: American Democracy from its Roots through the 2004 Election, McGraw-Hill Primis
2004 review of Shane White’s Stories of Freedom in Black New York, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 128 #1, 92-93
2002 “Globalization, Privatization, War: In Defense of Public Education in the Americas,” Summary of proceedings of a PSC-sponsored conference, edited with Electa Arenal, Renate Bridenthal, and John Hammond, 39 pp.
1999 “Reform or Revolution,” Review essay of Timothy Messer-Kruse’s The Yankee International: Marxism and the American Reform Tradition, 1848-1876, in Reviews in American History, Vol. 27 #2, 218-226.
1998 Race and Class Politics in New York City Before the Civil War, Northeastern University Press.
1995 review of Wendell Tripp’s (ed.) Coming and Becoming: Pluralism in New York State History, New York History
1992 “Political Radicalism in New York City During the Revolutionary and Constitutional Eras,” New York in the Age of the Constitution 1775-1800, Paul A. Gilje and William Pencak eds., Associated University Presses, 98-111.
1991 “Labor’s Decline within New York City’s Democratic Party from 1844 to 1884,” Immigration to New York, William Pencak, Selma Berrol and Randall M. Miller, eds., Associated University Presses, 7-26.
1990 review of Gerald Meyer’s Vito Marcantonio, Radical Politician, New York History
1990 reviews of Samuel Seabury III’s Moneygripes: The Personal Narrative of Samuel Seabury III and Christopher Clark with the assistance of Donald M. Scott eds., The Diary of an Apprentice Cabinetmaker: Edward Jenner Carpenter’s `Journal’ 1844-1845, Journal of the Early Republic.
1987 “The Irish and the Democratic Party, 1798-1884,” New York Irish History, vol. 2:1, 30-32.
1978 review of Celina Bobinska & Andrzej Pilch’s (eds.), Employment Seeking Emigrations of The Poles WorldWide XIX & XX centuries, The Polish Review.
1977 review of David Lane & George Kolonkiewicz (eds.) Social Groups in Polish Society, Science and Society
1976 review of Daniel Buzcek’s Immigrant Pastor, Gwiazda Polarna.
1975 review of Robert Hargreave’s Superpower: A Portrait of the U.S. in the 1970s, The Nation, 472-473.
1974 review of Richard Hofstadter’s American Political Tradition, The Nation, Vol. 219 #7, 216-218.
Honors, Awards and Affiliations
The Wolfe Institute in conjunction with Brooklyn’s College’s Africana Studies and History departments sponsored a Humanities Colloquium on my Race and Class Politics in New York City Before the Civil War.
