Gregory Jones-Katz is an American intellectual and cultural historian. He earned his Ph.D. in American History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2016. Greg currently holds a DFG-funded research position (“Eigene Stelle”) at the Institute for General and Comparative Literature at Goethe University Frankfurt and is an affiliated faculty member of the American Studies Department at TU Dortmund. He is a contributor to Foreign Policy: the Global Magazine for News and Ideas.

Greg’s first book Deconstruction: An American Institution is available with the University of Chicago Press (https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo27599454.html )

He is currently working on two book projects: (1) an intellectual history of theory; and (2) a cultural history of Dungeons and Dragons (under contract with Haymarket Books).