Ira Katznelson

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  Ira Katznelson is Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University, where he received his BA in 1966 and first taught after earning his PhD in history from Cambridge University in 1969.  Before returning to Columbia in 1994, he was a member of the departments of political science at the University of Chicago (where he was chair) and the New School for Social Research (where he was dean of the Graduate Faculty). From 2003-2004, he served as acting vice president and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Columbia.

  His recent books are Fear Itself: New Deal Democracy in a Southern Cage (scheduled for publication in March 2013); Liberal Beginnings: A Republic for the Moderns (2008; co-authored with Andreas Kalyvas); and When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America (2005).  Other 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: Letters to Adam Michnik (1996), and Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge after Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust (2003).

  Professor Katznelson was President of the American Political Science Association for 2005-2006.  Previously, he served as President of the Politics and History Section of APSA, President of the Social Science History Association, and Chair of the Russell Sage Foundation Board of Trustees.  He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.