1. Thomas J Sugrue was born on 1962 and is an American historian of the 20th-century United States currently serving as a professor at New York University.
15 Facts About Thomas Sugrue
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Thomas Sugrue has published extensively on the history of liberalism and conservatism, on housing and real estate, on poverty and public policy, on civil rights, and on the history of affirmative action.
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Thomas Sugrue graduated from Brother Rice High School in 1980 and from Columbia University in 1984, with a degree in history.
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Thomas Sugrue began his teaching career at the University of Pennsylvania in 1991.
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Thomas Sugrue has been a visiting faculty member at New York University, Harvard University, and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
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Thomas Sugrue's 2008 book Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History and a main selection of the History Book Club.
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Thomas Sugrue is author of Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race.
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Thomas Sugrue is currently writing a history of the rise and transformation of the real estate industry in modern America.
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Thomas Sugrue has published essays and reviews in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, London Review of Books, Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Detroit Free Press.
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Thomas Sugrue has won fellowships and grants from the Brookings Institution, the Social Science Research Council, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
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Thomas Sugrue was an inaugural Alphonse Fletcher Foundation Fellow, and was in the first class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows in 2015.
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Thomas Sugrue is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the New York Institute for the Humanities, and is the Walter Lippmann Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
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Thomas Sugrue served as vice chair of the City of Philadelphia Historical Commission from 2001 to 2008.
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Thomas Sugrue is a well-regarded public speaker, having given more than 300 talks to audiences at universities, foundations, community groups, and religious congregations throughout the United States and in Canada, Britain, France, Argentina, Japan, Israel, and Germany.
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Thomas Sugrue has appeared in several television series and documentary films.