| 1 | Name: | Dr. Ira Katznelson | |
| Institution: | Columbia University | ||
| Year Elected: | 2004 | ||
| Class: | 3. Social Sciences | ||
| Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Living | ||
| Birth Date: | 1944 | ||
Ira Katznelson ranks with the best political scientists of his generation. His works on race, class, and urban politics - all soundly grounded in empirical reality - have set the scholarly and political agenda in the decades since their publication. He is further recognized for the historical and comparative dimensions of his studies while his theoretical explorations have established him in the ranks of contemporary political theorists. Beyond those reaches Dr. Katznelson is an intellectual par excellence and an insightful commentator on the political trends in our civilization. Finally, as a generous and effective teacher and colleague, he has inspired a generation of students to carry forward and expand the scholarly tradition he has created. A graduate of Cambridge University (Ph.D., 1969), Dr. Katznelson has taught at Columbia University, where he is Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, since 1983. In September 2012 he became President of the Social Science Research Council. His published works include Black Men, White Cities: Race, Politics and Migration in the United States, 1900-1930, and Britain, 1948-1968 (1973); City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States (1981); (with M. Weir) Schooling for All: Race, Class, and the Decline of the Democratic Ideal (1985); Marxism and the City (1992); Liberalism's Crooked Circle: Letters to Adam Michnik (1996); Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust (2003); Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time (2013), which won the 2014 Bancroft Prize; and When Affirmative Action was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America (2016). | |||