Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, specializes primarily in American political development.  He earned his B.A. at Columbia (1966) and his Ph.D. at Cambridge (1969), and taught at Chicago and the New School before joining the Columbia faculty in 1994.  His books include Black Men, White Cities (1973); City Trenches (1981); Schooling for All (with Margaret Weir, 1985); Marxism and the City (1992); Liberalism's Crooked Circle (1996), winner of the American Political Science Association's Michael Harrington Prize and Columbia's Lionel Trilling Award; Desolation and Enlightenment (2003), winner of the David and Elaine Spitz Price of the Conference for the Study of Political Thought; When Affirmative Action Was White (2005); and Liberal Beginnings (with Andreas Kalyvas, 2008.  He also has co-edited Working Class Formation (1986); Paths of Emancipation (1995); Shaped by War and Trade (2002); Preferences and Situations (2005); and Religion and the Political Imagination (2010).

Affiliations

President, Politics and History Section, American Political Science Association, 1992-1993

President, Social Science History Association, 1997-1998

Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2000

Elected Member, American Philosophical Society, 2004

President, American Political Science Association, 2005-2006