Ira Katznelson

Katznelson earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University in 1966 and completed his PhD in history at the University of Cambridge in 1969.

In 1969, he also co-founded Politics & Society. Katznelson taught at Columbia from 1969 to 1974, at the University of Chicago from 1974 to 1983, and at the The New School for Social Research from 1983 to 1994. He was chair of the department of political science at the University of Chicago from 1979 to 1982 and dean of The New School from 1983 to 1989. In 1994, Katznelson returned to Columbia, where he is the Ruggles professor of political science and history.[1] In 2012, he was named president of the Social Science Research Council.[2]

Katznelson was president of the American Political Science Association (APSA) in 2005 and 2006. He previously served as president of APSA's Politics and History Section in 1992 and 1993, and as president of the Social Science History Association in 1997 and 1998.

. He has also been a Guggenheim Fellow, and was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000 and the American Philosophical Society in 2004. Katznelson has received honorary doctorates from the New School in 1994, Queens College in 2016, and the University of Cambridge in 2018.

• Black Men, White Cities; Race, Politics, And Migration In The United States, 1900–30 and Britain, 1948–68. 1973. Oxford University Press.[4]
• City Trenches: Urban Politics And The Patterning Of Class In The United States. 1981. Pantheon Books.
• Schooling For All: Class, Race, And The Decline Of The Democratic Ideal. 1985. Basic Books. (written with Margaret Weir).
• Working-Class Formation: Nineteenth-Century Patterns In Western Europe And The United States. 1986. Princeton University Press. (edited with Aristide Zolberg).
• Marxism And The City. 1992. Oxford University Press.
• Paths of Emancipation: Jews, States, And Citizenship. 1995. Princeton University Press. (edited with Pierre Birnbaum).
• Liberalism’s Crooked Circle: Letters to Adam Michnik. 1996. Princeton University Press.
• Shaped By War And Trade: International Influences On American Political Development. 2002. Princeton University Press. (edited with Martin Shefter).
• Political Science: The State Of The Discipline. 2002. W.W. Norton. (edited with Helen Milner).
• Desolation And Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, And The Holocaust. 2003. Columbia University Press.
• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History Of Racial Inequality In Twentieth-Century America. 2005. W.W. Norton.
• Preferences and Situations: Points of Intersection between Historical and Rational Choice Institutionalism. 2005. Russell Sage Foundation. (written with Barry Weingast).
• The Politics of Power: A Critical Introduction to American Government, 6th ed. 2006. (written with Mark Kesselman and Alan Draper). ISBN 978-0-15-570735-1
• Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time. 2013. Liverlight.

• Ira Katznelson, President, American Political Science Association, 2005–06
• Ira Katznelson on the Columbia University website
• Appearances on C-SPAN