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.
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Biographical Information
Glenn Altschuler 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. Prof. 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.
Writing
He is the author or co-author of nine books and more than four-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, Tulsa World, The Oregonian, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and American Heritage Magazine. His op-eds and book reviews appear regularly on The Huffington Post and on NPR's Books We Like. 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.
Read more about Prof. Altschuler's writing in Books and Essays and Reviews.
Awards
Prof. 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.