Seminar on Post-WWII New York City
The Gotham Center is proud to announce that we shall be conducting a monthly seminar this year, lasting from October to May, for fun and mutual enlightenment. The seminar will bring together people working on New York City's postwar history, and will be chaired by our Director, Mike Wallace.
See below for more information.
Schedule
Sept. 24: The Village Independent Democrats and Political Reform
Jonathan Soffer / Stephen Petrus
Oct. 22: Cold War Chinatown
Peter Kwong / John Torok
Nov. 19: Gotham In World War II
Mike Wallace
Dec. 3: Planning New York's Future
Thomas Angotti / Samuel Zipp
Dec. 17: Culture and Politics in two Communities: African Americans in the Bronx and the Diasporican Community
Mark Naison / Adam Pagan
Feb. 4 Migration to New York City in Comparative Perspective
Joshua Guild / Nancy Foner
Feb. 25: Neighborhood Change and Continuity
Eric Schneider / Robert Snyder
March 17: New York's Infrastructure: The Movement of Goods
Aaron Gurwitz / Benjamin Miller
April 14: Post-War Economic Policy
George V. Sweeting
April 28: Communities against Moses-Style Development
Peter Eisenstadt / Marci Reaven / Lawrence Kaplan / Ray Bromley / Sandra Levine (Round-table)
May 19: Public School Reform in the 1960s-80s
Heather Lewis
Participants
Tom Angotti - Urban Affairs and Planning, Hunter College, CUNY
Aaron Brenner - Editor, Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History (forthcoming)
Ray Bromley - Geography and Planning, U Albany, SUNY
Josh Brown - American Social History Project, Graduate Center, CUNY
Anthony De Jesus - Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College, CUNY
Martin Eisenberg - Queens College/College of Staten Island, CUNY
Peter Eisenstadt - Editor, Encyclopedia of New York State
Richard Flanagan - Political Science, Economics, and Philosophy, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Nancy Foner - Anthropology, SUNY Purchase
Josh Freeman - History, Graduate Center, CUNY
Rich Greenwald - History, US Merchant Marine Academy
Joshua Guild - African American Studies, History, Yale University
Aaron Gurwitz - Goldman, Sachs and Co.
Victoria Hattam - Political Science, New School for Social Research
Ella Howard - American and New England Studies, History, Boston University
Lawrence Kaplan - History, City College, CUNY
Tom Kessner - History, Graduate Center, CUNY
Jeffrey Kroessler - Archives and Special Collections, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Peter Kwong - Asian American Studies/Sociology, Hunter College and Graduate Center, CUNY
Sandra Levine - Historic Preservation
Heather Lewis - History, NYU
Madeleine Lopez - Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies, Lehman College, CUNY
Ann Meyerson - Curator, Brooklyn Historical Society
Benjamin Miller - Earth Engineering Center, Columbia University
Mark Naison - History, Fordham University
Vicky Nunez - Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College, CUNY
Adam Pagan - American Studies, University of Minnesota
Stephen Petrus - History, Graduate Center, CUNY
Marci Reaven - History, NYU and Citylore
Eric Schneider - History, University of Pennsylvania
Fred Siegel - History, Cooper Union for Science and Art
Rob Snyder - Journalism and Media Studies Program, Rutgers University, Newark
Jonathan Soffer - Humanities and Social Science, Polytechnic University
Arnold Sparr - History, St. Francis College
George Sweeting - NYC Independent Budget Office
John Torok - Columbia Law School
Mike Wallace - History, John Jay College, Gotham Center
Suzanne Wasserman - Gotham Center, Graduate Center, CUNY
Samuel Zipp - American Studies, Yale University