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Jacob Zumoff serves as Associate Professor in the Department of History, Philosophy & Religion at New Jersey City University, specializing in transnational intersections of labor movements, left-wing politics, and anti-racist struggles across the Americas.
Education:
- Ph.D. in History, University College London
- B.A. in History, Rutgers University
His research focuses on labor movements and working-class politics throughout the Americas, communist/radical political movements, race-migration-left politics intersections, cultural history of popular literature (particularly crime novels), and New Jersey labor history. Current projects examine labor-racial politics in Panama/Caribbean, political themes in hardboiled detective fiction, black radicalism through E. Franklin Frazier's writings, and class-struggle defense by the Communist Party/International Labor Defense in 1920s-1930s.
Zumoff co-directs NJCU's Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies, promoting academic-community engagement on regional history/culture. He has presented research internationally across Argentina, Britain, Canada, Catalonia, and China.
