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Biographical InformationHe received his Ph.D. in American History from Cornell in 1976 and has been an administrator and teacher at Cornell since 1981. Since 1991 he has served as Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions. As Dean he has also continued to do research and teaching. His year-long course in American Popular Culture is among the most popular in the university. He is the author or co-author of eight books and more than two-hundred essays and reviews. In addition to his scholarly essays, he has written for The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Baltimore Sun, The Los Angeles Times, The Jerusalem Post, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Boston Globe, the New York Observer, Barron’s Financial Weekly, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and American Heritage Magazine. For four years he wrote a column on higher education for the Education Life section of the New York Times. He was a regular panelist on national and international affairs for the WCNY television program The Ivory Tower Half-Hour from 2002-2005. Glenn Altschuler has won several awards for teaching and undergraduate advising at Cornell. He is the recipient of the Clark Teaching Award, the Donna and Robert Paul Award for Excellence in Faculty Advising, the Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Award for Outstanding Advising, and the 2006 Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowship for effective, inspiring and distinguished teaching of undergraduate students. Altschuler has been an animating force in the rapidly growing program in American Studies, and has been a strong advocate on campus for high-quality undergraduate teaching and advising. Publications"The 100 Most Notable Cornellians" (Cornell University Press 2003) Just arrived and is now available for purchase in the Store or online at www.store.cornell.edu! The authors of this new book (Glenn Altschuler, Isaac Kramnick, and R. Laurence Moore) sifted through encyclopedias, archives, and alumni records and engaged in conversations and debates to arrive at a final group of one hundred notable men and women who completed an undergraduate degree program at Cornell. Each Cornellian is profiled in a witty and erudite essay and is accompanied by a portrait. Andrew D. White-Educator, Historian, Diplomat (Cornell University Press 1979) Race, Ethnicity, and Class in American Social Thought, 1865-1919 (American History Series, John Hope Franklin and A. S. Eisenstadt, eds., Harlan Davidson, Inc. 1982) Revivalism, Social Conscience and Community in the Burned-Over District, (co-authored with Jan M. Saltzgaber, Cornell University Press 1983) Better Than Second Best: Love and Work in the Life of Helen Magill (University of Illinois Press 1990) Changing Channels: America In TV Guide (co-authored with David I. Grossvogel, University of Illinois Press 1992) Rude Republic: Americans and Their Politics in the 19th Century (co-authored with Stuart M. Blumin, Princeton University Press 2000). “All Shook Up”: How Rock ‘n Roll Changed America (Oxford University Press 2003). Related ArticlesCornell Chronicle
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Glenn Altschuler is the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies, a Weiss Presidential Fellow, and the Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions at Cornell University.