Credentials

Jonathan Soffer is Associate Professor of History at NYU Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, New York.

Urban History Association, 2010 Prize Committee for best article in the field published in 2009.

Review of Beverly Gage, The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in its First Age of Terror (Oxford UP, 2009) for Business History Review forthcoming.

Review of Bruce J. Schulman and Julian Zelizer, eds., Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2008), Journal of American History, Volume 95, no. 3 (December 2008), 928-9.

Manuscript review, Max Page, The City’s End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York’s Destruction (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008).

Anonymous manuscript review, Journal of American History. 2006.

Review of Eli Lederhendler, New York Jews and the Decline of Urban Ethnicity, 1950-1970 (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse UP, 2001) and Wendell Pritchett, Brownsville Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews, and the Changing Face of the Ghetto (Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 2002) Urban History, Volume 30, Issue 03, (December 2003), 436-439.

Reform Democratic Clubs in Peter Eisenstadt, ed. The Encyclopedia of New York State (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2005).

Referee for the David Thelen Prize Committee, Organization of American Historians, prize for the translation and publication of the best foreign article on American history in the Journal of American History, 2002.

Review of Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (New York: Hill & Wang, 2001) for H-POL, H-NET, July 20, 2001.

Matthew B. Ridgway in Kenneth T. Jackson, ed. The Scribner’s Encyclopedia of American Lives.v. 3 (New York: Scribners, 2001).

Review of William Stueck, The Korean War: An International History (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1995), Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, vol. 28 nos. 3&4 (1996).

Review of Barbara Epstein, Political Protest and Cultural Revolution: Nonviolent Direct Action (Berkeley: UC Press, 1990) in The Oral History Review, 19:1&2 (Spring/Fall, 1991), 136-37.

Contributing Editor, The Court TV Cradle to Grave Legal Survival Guide. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1995).