Norman Markowitz

Norman Markowitz is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where he has been affiliated since 1971. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Michigan (1970, 1967) and a B.A. from CCNY (1966). His academic work is grounded in a Marxist perspective, focusing on pivotal themes in modern U.S. political history and global imperialism.

• Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1970
• M.A., University of Michigan, 1967
• B.A., CCNY, 1966

Markowitz's research explores 20th-century U.S. political history, with expertise in socialism, communism, imperialism, and social movements. Recent projects include contributions to encyclopedias on U.S. imperialism, China's historical relationships with imperialist powers, and the social costs of global economic systems. He also engages in anti-fascist and anti-genocide scholarship as a board member of the Jasenovac Institute.

His course offerings span critical topics such as the history of socialism and communism, U.S. history from 1914 to the present, radicalism in America, and cultural analyses of the 1950s and 1960s. Markowitz actively participates in international academic dialogues, including conferences in China on poverty eradication and critiques of IMF-World Bank systems, and Zoom discussions on fascist revisionism and WWII-era genocide.