Nelson Lichtenstein
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Nelson Lichtenstein (November 15, 1944) is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is best known as a labor historian and for his research into 20th century American political economics.
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[edit] Life and education
Lichtenstein was born to Theodore and Beryle (Nelson) in Frederick, Maryland in 1944. He received his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College in 1966 and his Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974.
He married Joanne Landy in 1971; the union dissolved in 1978. He subsequently married Eileen Boris in 1979. They have one child, a son, Daniel.
Shortly after receiving his doctorate, Lichtenstein became editor of the reference work, Political Profiles. He edited the volume from 1975 to 1976.
In 1976, Lichtenstein held a one-year appointment as a lecturer at Ohio State University. The following year, he became editor of Ohio History magazine, a position which lasted two years.
In 1979, Lichtenstein held a one-year appointment as a visiting professor at The American University in Washington, D.C.. From 1980 to 1989, he held a professorship at The Catholic University of America. In 1988, he was also a visiting associate professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.
In 1989, Lichtenstein accepted a position as a professor of history at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.
In 2001, Lichtenstein left Virginia and took a position as a professor of history at University of California, Santa Barbara.
[edit] Awards
Lichtenstein was named a junior fellow at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in 1982. He received a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to undertake studies at Wayne State University in 1990. He was named a senior fellow at NEH in 1993.
Lichtenstein won the prestigious Philip Taft Labor History Book Award in 2003 for his work State of the Union: A Century of American Labor.
[edit] Books
[edit] Soley authored works
- American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. ISBN 0-8122-3923-7
- Labor's War at Home: The CIO in World War II. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003. ISBN 1-5921-3197-2
- State of the Union: A Century of American Labor. New edition. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-6911-1654-7
- Walter Reuther, The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1997. ISBN 0-2520-6626-X
[edit] Edited works
- Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism. New York: The New Press, 2005. Cloth ISBN 1595580352; Paperback ISBN 1595580212
[edit] References
- Who's Who in the South and Southwest. 24th ed. New Providence, N.J.: Marquis Who's Who, 2002.
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