Associate Professor, Gallatin School, New York University

Stephen Duncombe teaches the history and politics of media and culture and is the author, most recently, of Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy(2007). Other books include The Bobbed Haired Bandit: a True Story of Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York, with Andrew Mattson (2006), and Cultural Resistance Reader (editor, 2002). He is working on a book about the art of propaganda during the New Deal.

Duncombe has been a professor at NYU since 1999. He received his M.Phil. and Ph.D. from the City University of New York in Sociology.