The Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University
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Daniel J. Walkowitz

Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis , History ; Director of College Honors, College of Arts & Science
Ph.D. 1972 (History), A.B. 1964 (English Honors), University of Rochester.

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Personal Homepage:  http://www.cdny.org/walkowitz.html

Areas of Research/Interest: U.S. Social and Cultural History, with particular interest in Labor and Urban History

External Affiliations: American Historical Assocation Organization of American Historains National Council on Public History American Studies Association

Fellowships/Honors: Mellon Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, 1978-79 (declined) National Endowment for the Himanities, Media Division, 1976, 1977, 1980 National Council for Sovoet and East European Research, 1989, 1990. Stanford Humanities Center, Affiliate Fellow, 2001-02.

Select Publications:

Books:

WORKERCITY, COMPANY TOWN: IRON AND COTTON WORKER PROTEST IN TROY ANDCO­HOES, N.Y., 1855‑1884 (Illinois, 1978)

WORKERS OF THE DONBASS SPEAK: SURVIVAL AND IDENTITY IN THE  NEWUKRAINE, with Lewis H. Siegelbaum (SUNY Press, 1995).

WORKING WITH CLASS: SOCIAL WORKERS AND THE POLITICS OF MIDDLE‑CLASS IDENTITY (University of North Carolina Press, 1999).

Edited Volumes:

WORKERS IN THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: RECENT STUDIES OF LABOR IN THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE, co‑edited with Peter N. Stearns, with an Introduction by the editors (Transaction Press, 1974)

WORKING‑CLASSAMERICA: ESSAYS IN LABOR, COMMUNITY AND SOCIETY, co‑edited with Michael Frisch, with an Introduction by the editors (Illinois, 1983)

MEMORY AND THE IMPACT OF POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN PUBLIC SPACES, co-edited book, with Lisa Knauer, with an Introduction by the editors, Duke UniversityPress, 2004

General Editor (with Barbara Weinstein) RADICAL PERSPECTIVES, a Radical History Review book series, Duke University Press.

Media:

Writer, Director and Producer (with Barbara Abrash), "Perestroika From Below,"52‑minute video for Channel 4, England.  August 1990; WNET‑TV,New York, Sept. 1991.

Writer and Producer (with Gerald Herman), "Public History Today," 33‑minute video for the National Council for Public History. September 1990.

Project Director, "The Molders of Troy," 90‑Minute Docu­drama based on my book, WORKERCITY, COMPANY TOWN.  Aired nationally on PBS, June 1980. NEH‑funded

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