Thomas J. Sugrue, noted historian and author of prize-winning books about the urban and racial history of the United States, recently joined the NYU faculty after 24 years at the University of Pennsylvania. He is now a professor in NYU’s departments of social and cultural analysis, and history.
Professor Sugrue began his NYU tenure in July. He had just been awarded a two-year, $200,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation, as one of 31 inaugural Andrew Carnegie Fellows in the social sciences and humanities.
Professor Sugrue said the move to NYU will help him view his work from a global perspective, because NYU, which boasts “an extraordinary collection of urban scholars across a number of disciplines,” affords him opportunities to spend time at its overseas academic centers and campuses.
Drawn by NYU’s global presence, Professor Sugrue will experience it firsthand within his first year at the university. In January he will teach a course at NYU London about “transnational urbanism”, examining how conflicts and divides of race, ethnicity, class, and religion play out in urban policy. We can expect to see him at other global sites as well.