Jonathan Zimmerman

professor, education, Steinhardt, NYU

Jonathan Zimmerman is Professor of Education and History and Director of the History of Education Program, Steinhardt School of Education. He also holds an appointment in the Department of History of NYU's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. A former Peace Corps volunteer and high school teacher, Zimmerman is the author of *Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century *(2006), *Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools* (2002), and *Distilling Democracy: Alcohol Education in America's Public Schools, 1880-1925* (1999). His academic articles have appeared in *the Journal of American History*, *the Teachers College Record*, and *History of Education Quarterly*. Zimmerman is also a frequent op-ed contributor to *the New York Times*, *the Washington Post*, *the New Republic*, and other popular newspapers and magazines.