Lawrence B. Glickman

Lawrence B. Glickman (born January 10, 1963) is an American historian, university professor and administrator and author of books and articles on consumerism. He is currently head of the History Department at the University of South Carolina, where he has taught since 1992.^[1]

Education and career

Glickman did his undergraduate work at Princeton University, from which he received an A.B. degree in history magna cum laude in 1985. He did his graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley and received his M.A. in 1989 and his Ph.D. in 1992. That same year he became an assistant professor of history at the University of South Carolina and became a full professor in 2006.^[2]

Works

• Books:
  • Glickman, Lawrence B. (2009), A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society, Cornell University Press, ISBN 9780801486142
  • Glickman, Lawrence B. (2009), Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 9780226298658 ^[3]
  • Glickman, Lawrence B., editor (2009), Consumer Society in American History: A Reader, Cornell University Press ISBN 9780801484865
  • Glickman, Lawrence B., co-editor (2009), The Cultural Turn in U. S. History: Past, Present, and Future, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 9780226115078 ^[4]

• Articles:
  • Glickman, Lawrence B., Buy for the Sake of the Slave: Abolitionism and the Origins of American Consumer Activism, American Quarterly, Volume 56, Number 4, December 2004, pp. 889-912, The Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Glickman, Lawrence B., The Strike in the Temple of Consumption: Consumer Activism and Twentieth-Century American Political Culture. The Journal of American History 88.1 (2001): 45 pars. accessed 16 Oct. 2010

Personal life

He is married to Canadian-born Jill Frank, who is an associate professor of political science at the University of South Carolina.^{[5] [6]}

See also

• Boycott
• Consumer activism

References