Joseph Fronczak

Joseph Fronczak received a PhD in History from Yale University in 2014. His dissertation, “Popular Front Movements: Antifascism and the Makings of a Global Left during the Depression,” is a transnational history of the interwar world’s political economy. It takes, however, an unconventional approach to political economy, connecting popular politics—the everyday, local self-assertions of common people—to the world economy. To make sense of the global reach of fascism and antifascism between the World Wars, the dissertation suggests that these two political forms worked as the popular politics of the global economic order. An article, “Local People’s Global Politics: A Transnational History of the Hands Off Ethiopia Movement of 1935,” is forthcoming in Diplomatic History.