David HuyssenPhD, History, Yale, 2011
MA, MPhil, History, Yale 2008
BA, History & Literature, Harvard, 2002
Schwartz Postdoctoral Fellow
Profile:I am an historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, specializing in the social and cultural histories of class relations, political-economic development, and reform movements. My doctoral thesis, entitled, “Class Collisions: Wealth and Poverty in New York, 1890-1920,” explores intersections between wealthy and poor New Yorkers during the long Progressive Era, in contexts that range from tenement reform, charity work and architectural development, to employer violence and labor sabotage.
I am also working on an article that charts the development of social movement unionism in New Haven, CT, over the past two decades, and have begun preliminary research on my next book-length project, a biography of Alfred Winslow Jones. Jones (1900-1989), the inventor of the hedge fund, was a self-described socialist, international humanitarian, and sociologist of American class relations. He also moonlighted as a Marxist spy.
- Spring 2012 - Monstrous Organism: New York City in the Gilded Age
and the Progressive Era
- Fall 2011 - Class Wars in America: 1786 to the Present
" 'You Just Need To Talk To People': Organizing What's Left of the Model City," New Labor Forum, forthcoming, 2012
"Frederick Douglass" and "William Lloyd Garrison" entries, Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of American History, (forthcoming)
"So Geithner Thinks He Has Problems?" History News Network, 9 Feb 2009
"The University vs. the TAs," review of The University Against Itself, edited by Monica Krause, Mary Nolan, Michael Palm, and Andrew Ross, Academe, September-October 2008 (Vol. 94, No. 5), 55-58
"Response to the Responsive PhD," Academe, May-June 2007 (Vol. 93, No. 3), 49-51
Review of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation by Allan Guelzo, Slavery and Abolition, Aug. 2006 (Vol. 27, No. 2), 295-297
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Email:huyssend@newschool.eduResearch Interests:American class relations; wealth, poverty and inequality; labor movements and social justice organizing; US political economic development; history of US social policy; US foreign relations; the Guilded Age and the Progressive Era; violence; historical theory; American urban history.
Professional Affiliations:- New-York Historical Society
- American Association of University Professors
- American Historical Association
- Organization of American Historians
- The Tobin Project
"Whose University?" A.A.U.P. National Conference, June 2011
"Imperial Progressivism,' Urban History Working Group, Department of History, Yale University, Sept. 2010
" 'The Dawning of a New Era': Class and Charity in New York, 1884-1889," University of Massachusetts Amherst for "Change is the Only Constant: Society and Culture in Transition" conference, March 2010
"Henry W. Farnam and the Language of Patrician Reform," Harvard University, "The History of Capitalism in North America" conference, October 2006
- Mrs. Giles F. Whiting Dissertation Fellowship in the Humanities, 2009-10
- Gilder Lerhman Institute of American History Fellowship, 2008
