Ira Katznelson

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Ira Katznelson

Ira Katznelson (born July 3, 1944 ) is an American political scientist and historian . He is known for research publications on the liberal state, inequality and social institutions, primarily in the USA.

Life and work

Katznelson studied history at Columbia University and completed his Bachelor of Arts in 1966 . His Dr. phil. he graduated from the University of Cambridge in Great Britain in 1969 . In the same year he was a co-founder of the scientific journal Politics and Society .

Katznelson taught at Columbia University from 1969 to 1974, at the University of Chicago from 1974 to 1983. Another 11 years until 1994 he was a professor at New York University The New School . There he was dean of his department from 1983 to 1989. In 1994, Katznelson returned to Columbia University. There he holds the "Ruggles Professorship" for political science and history.

Katznelson was the chairman of the American Political Science Association (APSA) from 2005 to 2006 . From 1992 to 1993 he was responsible for the APSA section "Politics and History" and 1997-1998 of the "Social Science History Association". As a researcher, he was appointed a Guggenheim Fellow and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000 , the American Philosophical Society in 2004 and the British Academy in 2019 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Black Men, White Cities; Race, Politics, And Migration In The United States, 1900-30 and Britain, 1948-68 . 1973. Oxford University Press .
  • City Trenches: Urban Politics And The Patterning Of Class In The United States . 1981. Pantheon Books.
  • Schooling For All: Class, Race, And The Decline Of The Democratic Ideal . 1985. Basic Books. (together with Margaret Weir ).
  • Working-Class Formation: Nineteenth-Century Patterns In Western Europe And The United States . 1986. Princeton University Press . (edited together with Aristide Zolberg ).
  • Marxism And The City . 1992. Oxford University Press.
  • Paths Of Emancipation: Jews, States, And Citizenship . 1995. Princeton University Press. (edited together with Pierre Birnbaum ).
  • Liberalism's Crooked Circle: Letters to Adam Michnik . 1996. Princeton University Press.
  • Shaped By War And Trade: International Influences On American Political Development . 2002. Princeton University Press. (edited together with Martin Shefter ).
  • Political Science: The State Of The Discipline . 2002. WW Norton. (edited jointly with Helen Milner ).
  • Desolation And Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, And The Holocaust . 2003. Columbia University Press.
  • When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History Of Racial Inequality In Twentieth-Century America . 2005. WW Norton.
  • Preferences and Situations: Points of Intersection between Historical and Rational Choice Institutionalism . 2005. Russell Sage Foundation. (together with Barry Weingast ).
  • The Politics of Power: A Critical Introduction to American Government, 6th ed . 2006. (together with Mark Kesselman and Alan Draper ). ISBN 978-0-15-570735-1
  • Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time . 2013.

Awards

Katznelson's book Liberalism's Crooked Circle: Letters to Adam Michnik in 1996 received the Michael Harrington Prize from the APSA. Desolation and Enlightenment received the 2003 David and Elaine Spitz Award from the Conference of Political Thought and the David Easton Award from the APSA Foundation. In 2014 he received the Bancroft Award for Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The New School online from October 29, 2008: Katznelson's speech: "Liberty and Fear: Reflections on the New School's Founding Moments (1919 and 1933)" ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was used automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 11, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.newschool.edu
  2. ↑ Curriculum Vitae on the olumbia department website . In: Columbia University . Columbia University. Retrieved January 11, 2011.
  3. ↑ http://www.apsanet.org/content_8192.cfm
  4. ^ Bood of Members
personal data
SURNAME Katznelson, Ira
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American contemporary historian and political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1944