Theodore Hamm, Ph.D.

Education

Ph.D., American history, University of California Davis, 1996

M.A., American history, University of California Davis, 1992

B.A., American studies, Rutgers University, 1988

Bio

Theodore Hamm, Ph.D., is professor and chair of journalism and new media studies at St. Joseph’s University, New York.

He is the author of Run, Zohran, Run! (2025), a chronicle of the 2025 race for New York City mayor.

Dr. Hamm earned a B.A. in American Studies from Rutgers University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in American History from University of California, Davis.

Hamm's previous books include Bernie's Brooklyn: How Growing Up in the New Deal City Shaped Bernie Sanders' Politics (2020) and Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn (2017).

His recent work has appeared in The Indypendent, Jacobin and Drop Site News. 

Scholarly & Professional Interests

NYC/Brooklyn politics and history

Media studies

Criminal justice

Urban planning

Literary history

Select Publications

Recent essays and op-eds:

"The Brooklyn Machine vs. 1st Amendment," Daily Beast (6-16-17).

"To Close Rikers, End Broken Windows," City Limits (4-10-17). 

"When Frederick Douglas met John Brown," Jacobin (1-11-17). 

Books:

Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn (2017)

Pieces of a Decade: Brooklyn Rail Nonfiction, 2000-2010 (2010)

The New Blue Media: How Michael Moore, MoveOn, Jon Stewart and Company Are Transforming Progressive Politics (2008)

Rebel and a Cause: Caryl Chessman and the Politics of the Death Penalty in Postwar California, 1948-1974 (2001).