Jonathan Schneer was born on August 9,1948 and is an American historian of modern Britain whose work ranges over labor, political, social, cultural, and diplomatic subjects.
12 Facts About Jonathan Schneer
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Jonathan Schneer is a professor emeritus at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Jonathan Schneer's work has been translated into Russian, Estonian, German, Chinese, and Turkish.
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Jonathan Schneer has appeared often on American, Canadian, and British media.
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Jonathan Schneer was born on August 9,1948, in New York City.
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Jonathan Schneer's father, Richard Schneer, was a dentist with a practice in New York City, who retired to Berkshire County in northwestern Massachusetts, where he devoted himself to progressive causes.
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Jonathan Schneer's mother, Sophie Solomonoff Schneer, was a modern dancer in New York City, who became a choreographer and school teacher in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
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Jonathan Schneer's first teaching post was at Boston College in 1976, initially as a teaching assistant for Peter Weiler, then as an Instructor.
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Jonathan Schneer became a full professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1989, where he taught until 2018.
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Jonathan Schneer was an early member of the editorial board of the Radical History Review and served as an editor for many years, including three as book review editor.
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Jonathan Schneer has been trying to do that ever since, without sacrificing depth of scholarship.
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Jonathan Schneer has been a Whiting Fellow and a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies.