Thomas J. Sugrue\u00a0is a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at NYU. A specialist in twentieth-century American politics, urban history, civil rights, and race, Sugrue was educated at Columbia; King’s College, Cambridge; and Harvard, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1992. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an elected member of the Society of American Historians, and past president of both the Urban History Association and the Social Science History Association. He taught from 1991-2015 at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was David Boies Professor of History and Sociology and founding director of the Penn Social Science and Policy Forum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sugrue is author of\u00a0Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race<\/strong><\/a><\/em>\u00a0(Princeton University Press, 2010), also in\u00a0French translation<\/strong>,<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(Random House, 2008), a Main Selection of the History Book Club and a finalist for the\u00a02008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize.His first book,\u00a0The Origins of the Urban Crisis\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/strong>(Princeton University Press, 1996), won the\u00a0Bancroft Prizein American History, the\u00a0Philip Taft Prizein Labor History, the\u00a0President’s Book Award\u00a0of the Social Science History Association, and the\u00a0Urban History Association Award for Best Book\u00a0in North American Urban History and was selected a\u00a0Choice\u00a0<\/em>Outstanding Academic Book, an\u00a0American Prospect<\/em>\u00a0On-Line Top Shelf Book on Race and Inequality, and a\u00a0Lingua Franca<\/em>\u00a0Breakthrough Book on Race. It has been\u00a0translated into Japanese. In 2005, Princeton University Press selected\u00a0The Origins of the Urban Crisis<\/em>\u00a0as one of its\u00a0100 most influential books\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>of the past one hundred years and published a new edition of\u00a0The Origins of the Urban Crisis\u00a0<\/em>as a Princeton Classic. A\u00a0new edition<\/a>\u00a0of the book, covering the Detroit bankruptcy, was published by Princeton in 2014.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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