US-UK Fulbright Commission American Studies Summer Institute
Rene Arcilla, Associate Professor, Philosophy and Humanities Education, NYU. Recent publications include “Why Aren’t Philosophers and Educators Speaking to Each Other?” Educational Theory, and For the Love of Perfection: Richard Rorty and Liberal Education. His current work focuses on developing a philosophical theory of liberal learning.
Courtney Bender, Associate Professor, Religion, Columbia University. Courtney Bender is an Associate Professor of Religion at Columbia University, where she also holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Sociology. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton (Sociology) and her B.A. from Swarthmore College. She is the author of Heaven’s Kitchen: Living Religion at God’s Love We Deliver (Chicago 2003) and the forthcoming Worlds of Experience: Contemporary Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination (Chicago 2010) and After Pluralism: Reimagining Models of Interreligious Engagement, coedited with Pamela Klassen (Columbia 2010), and a variety of articles on contemporary American religious practice touching on topics as diverse as Muslim taxi drivers in New York, the impact of new religious immigration on First Amendment jurisprudence, the history of reincarnation in America, and Buddhist-Catholic dialogue. Bender serves as co-chair of the Social Science Research Council’s working group on “Spirituality, Political Engagement and Civic Life” funded by the Ford Foundation.
Dawn Botti, Instructor, Music Business, Music and Performing Arts Professions, NYU. A graduate of NYU School of Law, Ms. Botti began her legal career at the New York-based firm Proskauer Rose where she specialized in Intellectual Property Law and Commercial Litigation. Thereafter she joined the in-house legal department for ABC Television Network where she worked as Director of Legal Affairs for “Cable and New Media,” dealing with the Network’s emerging cable channels and with related to ABC’s websites. In 2000 she joined Studios Studios, the production and distribution division of USA Networks, Inc., which was acquired by Vivendi Universal, the owner of multiple entertainment assets such as Universal Music Group. Ms. Botti became VP Business and Legal Affairs for Universal Television. She is also a musician herself, fronting and playing guitar in the New York hard rock band SLUSHPUPPY.
Joy Gould Boyum, Professor, English Education, and Director, Studies in Arts and Humanities Education, NYU. She teaches courses in aesthetic theory, film, and the interrelated arts. Boyum has been the film critic for The Wall Street Journal, Glamour Magazine, Us and NPR’s All Things Considered, and has written for such other newspapers and journals as Rolling Stone, Newsday, The Chicago Tribune, Science Digest, and Working Mother.
John Brademas, former Congressman and President of New York University. Representing Indiana’s Third District for 22 years (1959-81) in the U.S. House of Representatives,, Brademas served on three Committees: Education and Labor, House Administration, and the Joint (House- Senate) Committee on the Library of Congress. As chief House sponsor of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act; Environmental Education Act; Library Services and Construction Act; Arts, Humanities and Cultural Affairs Act; Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Act; Museum Services Act; and Older Americans Comprehensive Services Act, Brademas earned a reputation as a leading force in the creation of legislation concerning education, arts and humanities, vocational rehabilitation, services for the elderly and disabled, and libraries and museums. Dr. Brademas is also proud to hold the distinction of being the first native-born American of Greek origin elected to Congress. After leaving Congress, Brademas continued his distinguished career by pursuing his passion for education and serving as President of New York University from 1981 to 1992. During that time, he led the transition of NYU from a regional commuter school to a national and international residential research university. Former Chairman of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, the National Endowment for Democracy, and the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Brademas is president of the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center of New York University Foundation. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and member of the National Academy of Education (USA), The Academy of Athens, European Academy of Science and Arts, and National Academy of Education of Argentina. In 2004 he was elected to the New York State Board of Regents by the New York State Legislature. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where he earned his Ph.D. He has been awarded honorary degrees by 52 colleges and universities. Among other honors he has received is the Hubert H. Humphrey Award of the American Political Science Association for outstanding public service by a political scientist.
Gabriella Coleman, Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Gabriella Coleman is an anthropologist who examines the ethics of online collaboration/institutions as well as the role of the law and digital media in sustaining various forms of political activism. Between 2001-2003 she conducted ethnographic research on computer hackers primarily in San Francisco, the Netherlands, as well as those hackers who work on the largest free software project, Debian. She is completing a book manuscript "Coding Freedom: Hacker Pleasure and the Ethics of Free and Open Source Software" (under contract with Princeton University Press) and is starting a new project on peer to peer patient activism on the Internet. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including ones from the National Science Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council. She is on academic leave during the 2010-2011 academic year at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ.
Allan E. Goodman, President of the Institute of International Education, former Dean of the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Previously, he was Executive Dean of the School of Foreign Service and Professor at Georgetown University. He is the author of books on international affairs published by Harvard, Princeton and Yale University Presses and Diversity in Governance, published by the American Council on Education. Dr. Goodman also served as Presidential Briefing Coordinator for the Director of Central Intelligence and as Special Assistant to the Director of the National Foreign Assessment Center in the Carter Administration. He was the first American professor to lecture at the Foreign Affairs College of Beijing. Dr. Goodman also helped create the first U.S. academic exchange program with the Moscow Diplomatic Academy for the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs and developed the diplomatic training program of the Foreign Ministry of Vietnam. Dr. Goodman has also served as a consultant to Ford Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the United States Information Agency, and IBM. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Norman Friedman, strategist, military technological analyst, and naval historian. The fifth edition of his Naval Institute Guide to World Naval Weapon Systems was recently published, and his history of British destroyers and frigates since the 1930s was published in spring 2010. He was Deputy Director for National Security Affairs for the Hudson Institute for a number of years, and has been a consultant to the Secretary of the Navy, as well as a number of U.S. defense contractors. Among his more than 30 books: Seapower and Space; Seapower as Strategy; Terrorism, Afghanistan, and America's New Way of War; The Fifty-Year War.
Ester Fuchs, Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science, Columbia University. She served as Special Advisor to the Mayor for Governance and Strategic Planning under New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg from 2001-2005. While at City Hall, Dr. Fuchs coordinated three significant mayoral initiatives: the restructuring the City’s delivery of Out-of-School Time (OST) programs to children, youth, and families; the Integrated Human Services System Project (Access New York) to streamline the screening and eligibility determination processes, case management, and policy development and planning functions within and across the 13 human services agencies through the use of technology; and the merger of the Department of Employment with the Department of Small Business Services to align the City’s workforce development programs with the needs of the business community. Dr. Fuchs was also appointed by Mayor Bloomberg to serve as Chair of the 2005 NYC Charter Revision Commission. She was the first woman to serve in this capacity. Before going on a public service leave to join the Bloomberg Administration, Dr. Fuchs was Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Chair of the Urban Studies Program at Barnard and Columbia Colleges, and founding Director of the Columbia University Center for Urban Research and Policy.
Thomas Halper, Professor and Department Chair, Political Science, Baruch College CUNY. Halper teaches constitutional law and civil liberties. He has authored four books and numerous articles, including Positive Rights in a Republic of Talk: A Survey and a Critique. He was awarded Baruch’s Presidential Scholarship Achievement Award and has presented many scholarly papers in the United States and abroad.
William Henning, Second Vice President, Local 1180. Local 1180 is a branch of the Communication Workers of America, a union that represents workers at public offices including the Board of Education and the state’s Unified Court System, as well as some private organizations including Planned Parenthood and the ASPCA. In addition, Henning serves as the Chairman of the Board at the New York Committee on Occupational Safety and Health. A leader of the progressive labor movement, Henning has been outspoken on a number of issues affecting American workers. He has also served as the Chairman of the New York Committee on Occupational Safety and Health.
Neil Hickey, Advisor, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, and Contributing Editor, Columbia Journalism Review. He has written hundreds of articles on issues relating to the press, television, cable and telecommunications. He covered the Vietnam War, the first Persian Gulf War, the coming of glasnost, the IRA hunger strikes, and the U.S.-sponsored TV/Radio Marti of Cuba. On the domestic front, Mr. Hickey has reported extensively on presidential politics covering several political conventions, including a four part series on the 1968 Democratic convention, and has interviewed presidents Clinton, Ford, Nixon, Carter and Johnson. He is the author of a number of books, including Adam Clayton Powell and the Politics of Race.
KC Johnson, Professor of History, Brooklyn College. KC Johnson is professor of history at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, where he specializes in 20th century U.S. political and diplomatic history. His most recent book is All the Way with LBJ: Lyndon Johnson and the 1964 Election (Cambridge, 2009).
Carol Krinsky, Professor of Fine Arts, NYU. Her major interests include architectural history and medieval and early Renaissance art history. Professor Krinsky is a member of numerous organizations, including the Society of Architectural Historians and the Urban History Association. She is the author of numerous articles and nine books on architecture, including Synagogues of Europe; Rockefeller Center; Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore; and Contemporary Native Architecture.
Karen Kupperman, Silver Professor, History, NYU. Her major interests are in early modern Atlantic world, colonization, Native American history. She is the author of six books, including The Jamestown Project and Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony, and numerous scholarly articles and book chapters. Among her many awards are The American Historical Association Prize in Atlantic History, the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association for the best book in American History, including Canada and Latin America, the Binkley-Stephenson Award of the Organization of American Historians.
Herbert London, President, Hudson Institute, and former John M. Olin University Professor of Humanities at New York University. His work has appeared in every major newspaper and journal in the country, including such diverse publications as Commentary, National Review, American Spectator, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, The Washington Times, New York Magazine, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Modern Age, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Orbis, and Encounter. Among his eighteen books are: Myths That Rule America; Military Doctrine and the American Character; and Decade of Denial; A Strategy for Victory without War. London serves as a board member for a number of groups, including International Transportation Systems, Merrill Lynch Asset Management, and the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
Courtney Martin, author, writer and speaker. She has lectured on her award-winning first book, Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: How the Quest for Perfection is Harming Young Women, at over 50 universities throughout the nation. She is also an editor at Feministing.com, the most widely read feminist publication in the world, and a Senior Correspondent for The American Prospect, where she has a column on politics, gender, and youth. Courtney has appeared on the TODAY Show, Good Morning America, MSNBC, and The O’Reilly Factor, and is the recipient of the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics and a residency from the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Centre. More about her work is available at www.courtneyemartin.com.
Brett McGurk, International Affairs Fellow in Residence at the Council on Foreign Relations. He will focus his research on legal and policy issues related to complex international negotiations, as well as current U.S. policy in Iraq and Afghanistan. Brett was mostly recently a resident fellow for the fall 2009 semester at Harvard University, where he lectured on the role of the U.S. Supreme Court and the National Security Council since September 11, 2001. He served on the National Security Council staff of President George W. Bush (2005-2009), first as director for Iraq and then as special assistant to the president and senior director for Iraq and Afghanistan, and President Barack Obama, as a special advisor. During the Obama administration, he also served as a senior advisor to Ambassador Ryan Crocker and then Ambassador Christopher Hill in Baghdad. In 2007 and 2008 he was the lead U.S. negotiator on agreements with the Iraqi government that set the conditions for a withdrawal of U.S. forces and built the foundation for bilateral relations between Iraq and the United States. For this assignment he received the Distinguished Honor Award from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the highest award the Secretary can bestow on a civilian not serving in the State Department. He is a former Supreme Court law clerk, clerking for the late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist from 2001 to 2002, and in 2004-2005 served as an attorney with the Coalition Provisional Authority and the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, focusing on issues of constitutional reform, elections, and government formation. Brett holds a BA from the University of Connecticut and a JD from Columbia University, where he served as a senior editor of the Columbia Law Review.
Charlton McIlwain, Professor, Media, Culture and Communication, NYU. His current research focuses on the use of racial appeals in political communication, including the semiotic construction of racial appeals in language and visual images; the effects of racial appeals on public opinion and voting behavior; framing and priming effects of race in various media; and media coverage of minority political candidates. He is the author of the fortcoming book (with Stephen Maynard Caliendo), Race Appeal: The Prevalence, Purposes & Political Implications of Racial Discourse in American Politics, and co-editor of the forthcoming, Routledge Companion to Race & Ethnicity. His work has also been published in the International Journal of Press/Politics, Semiotica, Journal of Black Studies, TAMARA Journal of Critical Postmodern Organizational Science, American Behavioral Scientist, Communication Quarterly, and others.
Marilyn McMillan, Associate Provost and Chief Information Technology Officer at New York University. McMillan leads Information Technology Services, including communications, computing and client services university-wide, as well as academic and administrative computing services. Before coming to NYU, she served Stanford University as Director of Applications Assembly and Integration (1996-1998). There she led the planning for and execution of major projects to introduce a new generation of university-wide applications and infrastructure. McMillan’s career in IT services in higher education began when she joined the staff at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a project manager in 1977. Through 1996 at MIT, she held a number of leadership positions, including Director of Administrative Systems, Director of Architecture and Strategic Technology, and Director of Information Systems Planning. Her earlier IT experience was in government and private industry.
Susan Meiklejohn, Associate Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College. Before beginning her Ph.D., Professor Meiklejohn worked for over ten years as an urban planner addressing community planning, urban development, historic preservation, and urban design issues. Her research, for which she has won awards from the Urban Affairs Association and the Association of the Collegiate Schools of Planning, focuses on the effects of geographic segregation and racial discrimination. Meiklejohn, a recent visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, is now writing a book about interethnic friendships in her own neighborhood: Sunnyside, Queens, where 60 percent of the population is comprised of newly-arrived immigrants from over 68 source countries. Meiklejohn enjoys teaching the history and theory of planning, neighborhood evolution and gentrification, immigration, and urban design. She also teaches for the Thomas Hunter Honors program.
Michele Mitchell, Assistant Professor of History, New York University. Michele Mitchell focuses on gender and sexuality, U.S. history (1860-1940), African American, African Diaspora, nationalism and feminist theory. She is also interested in slavery and emancipation, intellectual and social histories, history of medicine, West/East/South Africa, Brazil and film theory. She is the author of Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction (University of North Carolina Press, 2004) and Dialogues of Dispersal: Gender, Sexuality, and African Diasporas, co-edited with Sandra Gunning and Tera W. Hunter (Blackwell Publishing, 2004).
Gabriel Moran, Professor, Philosophy of Education, NYU. He is the author of 19 books and numerous essays in edited collections, among which are: Experiences in Community; Religious Education Development; No Ladder to the Sky: Morality and Education; Uniqueness: Problem or Paradox in Jewish and Christian Traditions; A Grammar of Responsibility; “Is a Workable Ethic of Non-violence Possible?” International Seminar on Religious and Values; and “Religion and International Ethics,” Association of Professors and Researchers in Religious Education . He has also published 200 articles in such publications as Commonwealth America, Theological Studies, Cross Current , and Education Week.
Jonathan Nosan, actor and producer. A professional contortionist and stuntman, he is a member of Anti-Gravity, a performance group that has performed all over the world, including the 2002 Winter Olympics. He has made many television and film appearances in major motion pictures such as Spiderman 2 and Big Fish. He made his Broadway debut in a major role in The Times They Are A-Changing, a Twyla Tharp musical inspired by the music of Bob Dylan.
Gabriella Petrick, Assistant Professor of Food Studies, NYU. Her publications include Industrializing Taste: Food Processing and the Transformation of the American Diet, 1900-1965 (working title), (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press); with Gerard J. Fitzgerald, “In Good Taste: Rethinking American History with Our Palates,” Journal of American History (September 2008); “‘Like Ribbons of Green and Gold’: Industrializing Lettuce and the Quest for Quality in the Salinas Valley, 1920-1965,” Agricultural History (Summer 2006).
Stacy Pies, Professor, Gallatin School, NYU. Stacy Pies teaches courses that explore the role of narrative and culture in texts and human relationships, as well as courses exploring poetry and poetics. She has presented papers and chaired panels at the MLA, ACLA, Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, and Twentieth-Century Literature conferences, among others and has published essays in French Forum, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, and Poetry’s Poet: Essays on the Poetry, Pedagogy, and Poetics of Allen Grossman.
Richard Pious, Ochs Professor of American Studies, Barnard College and Columbia University. Among his books are The Power to Govern, Presidents, Elections and Democracy, The American Presidency, American Politics and Government, and The President, Congress and the Constitution. He has also published numerous articles in the Political Science Quarterly, the Wisconsin Law Review, the Journal of International Affairs, the Journal of Armed Forces and Society, and Constitution Magazine.
Joel Sachs, Director of Contemporary Music, The Julliard School, Director of the New Juilliard Ensemble, and co-Director of Continuum, one of the nation’s leading contemporary music groups. An internationally recognized pianist and director of contemporary music, he is the author of one hundred articles on contemporary art music, as well as Kapellmeister Hummel in England and France, The Complete Works for Piano: a Six-volume Collection of Reprints and Facsimiles, and Charles Ives the Visionary: Piano, Chamber and Vocal Works.
Deirdre Sato is Director of International Programs and Services at Purchase College, State University of New York. For the past 19 years she has directed international student and scholar and study abroad advising at New York area institutions of higher education: Parsons School of Design, Pace University and Purchase. She has also been a frequent presenter and trainer for NAFSA: Association of International Educators, the Forum on Education Abroad and other higher education associations. She is past chair of MAFSA Region X and was a national lead trainer for NAFSA's Academy. Deirdre holds a BA from Cornell and a Masters in Higher Education Administration from NYU. She recently defended her dissertation, When Worlds Collide: Assessing the Impact of Short-term Study Abroad Programs and was awarded her PhD in International Education from NYU.
Robert Seltzer, Professor, History, Hunter College , CUNY. Seltzer is the Director, Hunter Jewish Social Studies Program, and former Director of the Mazer Institute for Research and Advanced Study in Judaica. Among his books are Jewish People, Jewish Thought: The Jewish Experience in History; Judaism: A People and its History and Religions of Antiquity The Americanization of the Jews ; The American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan; Reappraisals in Jewish Social and Intellectual History; and Essential Papers in Jewish Studies . He has published a number of articles in such journals as Polin: A Journal of East European Jewish Studies, Contemporary Jewry , and Commentary.
Norman Siegel, attorney in private practice. From 1985 to 2000 he was Executive Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, and before that Project Director for MFY Legal Services, Inc., which assisted poor people in neighborhoods in Manhattan. While in private practice, he has been active in a number advocacy campaigns, including efforts to limit the use of eminent domain in Harlem and Brooklyn and the public release of all information related to the events of September 11, 2001. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Newsday, the Daily News, and the Amsterdam News. He has served on the board of directors of the Jackie Robinson Foundation, and he is a founding board member of the Amadou Diallo Foundation.
George David Smith, Clinical Professor of Economics, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation, and Academic Director of the MBA Programs, NYU. He is author and co-author of several books, among which are: Anatomy of a Business Strategy; From Monopoly to Competition; The New Financial Capitalists; Cotton’s Renaissance; and Wisdom from the Robber Barons. He has also authored a number of scholarly and popular articles, and is currently at work on a concise history of Wall Street.
Carolyn Sorkin, Director, International Studies, Wesleyan University. She is in charge of study abroad, international graduate scholarships, and international summer opportunities at Wesleyan University. Prior to Wesleyan, she was Associate Director of NYU's King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, which promotes research and teaching on Spain and the Spanish-speaking world. Her current research is on intellectuals and the social sciences in Chile.
Lynda Spielman, Former Director of Deployment, Global Human Resources, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. Before joining the Deloitte organization, Spielman worked on global economic development issues for international organizations such as the United Nations and the Carnegie Endowment. At Deloitte for 25 years, she has developed innovative programs in cross-cultural learning and communications for multinational business settings. She has a Ph.D. in Latin American history from Indiana University.
Daniel Walkowitz, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, History, NYU; Director of College Honors, College of Arts and Sciences, NYU. His research is in U.S. Social and Cultural History with a focus on labor and urban history. His publications include Workercity, Company Town: Iron and Cotton Worker Protest in Troy Andcohoes, N.Y., 1855-1884; Workers of the Donbass Speak: Survival and Identity in the New Ukraine with Lewis H. Siegelbaum, and Working with Class: Social Workers and the Politics of Middle Class Identity.
Steven Wheatley, Vice President of the American Council of Learned Societies. He is the author of, among other works, The Politics of Philanthropy: Abraham Flexner and Medical Education and a new introduction to Raymond Fosdick’s The Story of the Rockefeller Foundation, and he is the editor of Constitutionalism and Democracy: Transitions in the Contemporary World.
Janet Zarish, Head of Acting and Graduate Acting, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. Professor Zaish received her BFA at The Juilliard School and has taught acting at The New York Shakespeare Festival, The Actors Center, The Manhattan School of Music, UCLA, USC, and North Carolina School of the Arts. As an actress, she has performed on and Off-Broadway, starring in such productions as Other People’s Money at the Minetta Lane Theatre, and Miss Julie and An Enemy of the People at the Roundabout Theatre. From her association with Circle Rep and Ensemble Studio Theatre she has originated roles in many new plays, working with such writers as David Mamet, Shel Silverstein, Wendy Wasserstein and Terrance McNally. Was an original member of John Houseman’s The Acting Company under Mr. Houseman’s direction. Regional theatre credits include leading roles at The Longwharf Theatre, The McCarter Theatre, Sundance, Hartford Stage, Seattle Rep, Berkshire Theatre Festival, New York Stage & Film and the Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival, working with such directors as Nycholas Hytner, Daniel Sullivan, Emily Mann, Mark Lamos and Jon Jory. Film credits include The Next Best Thing, Object of My Affection, Malcolm X, Danny, Mystic Pizza, Without a Trace, and Square Root of Three. She has guest starred in over twenty television shows and has directed The Slope, a pilot presentation for CBS.
Arthur Zegelbone, Director, ELS Language Centers , and former President of the Lotus Foundation. A retired Foreign Service Officer, Zegelbone served as Director of Public Affairs at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, Cultural Affiars Officer of the U.S. Embassy in Japan , among other postings for the United States Information Agency and the U.S. Department of State. He presently serves as a consultant to the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State.
Matthew Zeidenberg, Senior Research Associate at the Community College Research Center, Institute on Education and the Economy, Teachers College, Columbia University. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Sociology, both from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He has a B.A. in Physics from Harvard. His sociology Ph.D. dissertation addressed trends in federal civil litigation; his C.S. Ph.D. concerned improved methods of searching the Web. Matt came to CCRC from the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, where he worked on many projects involving regional labor markets and the status of workers. Most recently, with collaborators Marc Scott of NYU and Pablo Mitnik of Wisconsin, he has been involved in research on various aspects of workers’ careers, with particular attention to prospects for advancement in various industries and to the determinants of increases in wages over the course of a worker’s career.
Jonathan Zimmerman, Professor, History of Education and History, and Department Chair, Humanities and Social Sciences, New York University. He also holds an appointment in the Department of History of NYU’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. A former Peace Corps volunteer and high school teacher, Zimmerman is the author of Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory (Yale, 2009), Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century (Harvard, 2006), Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools (Harvard, 2002), and Distilling Democracy: Alcohol Education in America’s Public Schools, 1880-1925 (Kansas, 1999). His academic articles have appeared in the Journal of American History, the Teachers College Record, and History of Education Quarterly. Zimmerman is also a frequent op-ed contributor to the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Republic, and other popular newspapers and magazines.