Location:
American Political History and Development
, Ruggles Professor of
Political Science and History, specializes in American political
development, as well as comparative politics and political theory. He
earned his B.A. at
Columbia
(1966) and his Ph.D. at
Cambridge
(1969), and taught at
Chicago
and the
New
School
before joining the
Columbia
faculty in 1994. His books include:
Black Men, White Cities (1973);
City Trenches (1981);
Schooling for All (with Margaret Weir, 1985);
Marxism and the City (1992);
Liberalism’s Crooked Circle (1996), winner of the American Political Science Association’s Michael Harrington Prize and Columbia’s Lionel Trilling Award;
Desolation and Enlightenment (2003), winner of the David and Elaine Spitz Prize of the Conference for the Study of Political Thought; and
When Affirmative Action Was White (2005). He also has co-edited:
Working Class Formation (1986);
Paths of Emancipation (1995);
Political Science (2002);
Shaped by War and Trade (2002); and
Preferences and Situations (2005).
