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Kenneth T. Jackson

Jacques Barzun Professor in History and the Social Sciences
603 Fayerweather Hall
Mail Code: 2538


Phone
work: +1 212 854 2555


Email
ktj1@columbia.edu

Office Hours
Tuesdays, 4-6 p.m.

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Kenneth T. Jackson
Jacques Barzun Professor in History and the Social Sciences
Columbia University

History

Undergraduate Education Committee (Spring 2009), Prizes and Honors Officer (Spring 2009), Development Committee Co-Chair (Spring 2009)



Biography
Kenneth T. Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences and Director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History, specializes in urban, social, and military history. He received his doctorate from the University of Chicago (1966). Professor Jackson has been president of the Urban History Association, the Society of American Historians, the Organization of American Historians, and the New York Historical Society. His publications include: The Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915–1930 (1967); Cities in American History (with Stanley Schultz, 1972); Silent Cities: The Evolution of the American Cemetery (with Camilo Vergara, 1990); Encyclopedia of New York City (ed., 1995); Empire City: New York Through the Centuries (with David Dunbar, 2001); and Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York (with Hilary Ballon, 2007). His best-known book is Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (1985), which won both the Francis Parkman and Bancroft Prizes and which is now in its 28th printing.

 

 

 

 

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