Michael Staub

Professor

Weissman School of Arts and Sciences

Department: English

Areas of expertise:

Email Address: michael.staub@baruch.cuny.edu

Biography
Teaching
Research and Creative Activity
Grants
Honors and Awards
Service

Education

Ph.D., American Civilization, Brown University

M.A., American Civilization, Brown University

B.A., Literature and Society, Hampshire College

Semester	Course Prefix	Course Number	Course Name
Spring 2023	IDC	4050H	Hon Feit Hum Sem I
Fall 2022	ENG	2100	Writing I
Fall 2022	ENG	6002H	Honors English II
Spring 2022	ENG	6001H	Honors-English I
Spring 2022	PSY	3730H	Honors-Lit & Psychology
Spring 2022	ENG	3730H	Hon - Lit & Psychology
Fall 2021	ENG	2100	Writing I
Fall 2020	ENG	2100	Writing I
Spring 2020	IDC	2002H	Honors-Chase Intrdsc Sem II
Spring 2020	ENG	2150H	Honors - Writing II
Fall 2019	ENG	5000	Independent Study English I
Fall 2019	ENG	2100	Writing I
Spring 2019	ENG	3730H	Hon - Lit & Psychology
Spring 2019	PSY	3730H	Honors-Lit & Psychology
Fall 2018	ENG	5000	Independent Study English I
Spring 2018	IDC	4050H	Hon Feit Hum Sem I
Fall 2017	ENG	2100	Writing I
Spring 2017	HIS	4900	Capstone: Search His
Spring 2017	AMS	4900	Topics in American Studies
Spring 2017	ENG	4500	Currents Literary Expression
Fall 2016	ENG	3730H	Hon - Lit & Psychology
Fall 2016	PSY	3730H	Honors-Lit & Psychology
Spring 2016	ENG	2150H	Honors - Writing II
Fall 2015	ENG	2100	Writing I
Spring 2015	HIS	4900	Capstone: Search His
Spring 2015	ENG	4500	Currents Literary Expression
Spring 2015	AMS	4900	Topics in American Studies
Spring 2015	ANT	4800	Anthropological Analysis
Fall 2014	ENG	3950H	Honors - Topics In Literature
Fall 2014	PSY	3043H	Honors Special Topics in Psych
Fall 2014	ENG	3950	Topics in Literature
Fall 2014	PSY	3043	Spec Topics In Psych
Spring 2013	ENG	3950H	Honors - Topics In Literature
Spring 2013	PSY	3046H	Honors - Management Behavior
Fall 2012	AMS	4900	Topics in American Studies
Fall 2012	ENG	4500	Currents Literary Expression
Fall 2012	HIS	4900	Capstone: Search His
Fall 2012	POL	4900	Political Science Capstone Sem
Spring 2012	IDC	4050H	Hon Feit Hum Sem I
Spring 2012	ENG	5000	Independent Study English I
Fall 2011	ENG	4440	Currents in the Modern Novel
Fall 2011	ENG	5000	Independent Study English I
Fall 2011	ENG	4440H	Hon Cur & Mod Novels
Spring 2011	ENG	4500	Currents Literary Expression
Spring 2011	AMS	4900	Topics in American Studies
Spring 2011	HIS	4900	Capstone: Search His
Spring 2011	ENG	6002H	Honors English II
Fall 2010	ENG	3950	Topics in Literature
Fall 2010	ENG	3950H	Honors - Topics In Literature
Fall 2010	ENG	6001H	Honors-English I
Fall 2010	ENG	2100	Writing I
Spring 2010	ENG	2850H	Honors Great Works II
Fall 2009	AMS	4900	Topics in American Studies
Fall 2009	ENG	2100	Writing I
Fall 2009	HIS	4900	Capstone: Search His
Fall 2009	ENG	4500	Currents Literary Expression
Spring 2008	AMS	4900	Topics in American Studies
Spring 2008	HIS	4900	Capstone: Search His
Spring 2008	ENG	4500	Currents Literary Expression
Fall 2007	ENG	2100	Writing I
Fall 2007	IDC	4050H	Hon Feit Hum Sem I
Spring 2007	AMS	4900	Topics in American Studies
Spring 2007	ENG	2150	Writing II
Fall 2006	ENG	4500	Currents Literary Expression
Fall 2006	ENG	2100	Writing I
Spring 2006	ENG	2850	Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2006	ENG	2100	Writing I
Fall 2005	ENG	2100	Writing I
Fall 2005	ENG	2850	Great Works of Literature II

Books

Staub, M. E. (2018). THE MISMEASURE OF MINDS: Debating Race and Intelligence Between Brown and The Bell Curve. (p. approx. 250 pages). Chapel Hill, NC, US, University of North Carolina Press.

Staub, M. (2011). MADNESS IS CIVILIZATION: When the Diagnosis Was Social, 1948-1980. (p. 255). Chicago, USA, University of Chicago Press.

Wililams, K. M., & Staub, M. (2006). LOVE MY RIFLE MORE THAN YOU: Young, Female, and in the Army. (p. 290 pages). New York, W.W. Norton & Co.

Staub, M. (2004). THE JEWISH 1960s: American Sourcebook. (p. 371 pages). Hanover, The University Press of New England.

Staub, M. (2002). TORN AT THE ROOTS: The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America. (p. 386 pages). New York, Columbia University Press.

Staub, M. (1994). VOICES OF PERSUASION: Politics of Representation in 1930s America. (p. 174 pages). New York, Cambridge University Press.

Journal Articles

(2023). “Snake Oil and Gaslight: How the Petroleum Industry Got in Touch with Nature". Environmental Humanities, 15. 83-102.

Staub, M. (2022). "Making Sense of Plague in the Vietnam War". Environmental History, 27(2). 242-268.

Staub, M. (2016). "The Other Side of the Brain: The Politics of Split-Brain Research in the 1970s-1980s" . History of Psychology, 22. 259-273.

Staub, M. (2016). “Controlling Ourselves: Emotional Intelligence, the Marshmallow Test, and the Inheritance of Race". American Studies, Spring 2016(55). 59-80.

(2008). Madness Is Civilization: A New Cultural History of the 1960s. Support from the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,

(2006). Smart: Keyword in and for the New Jewish Studies. Shofar, 24(4). 2-12.

(1999). Negroes are not Jews’: Race, Holocaust Consciousness, and the Rise of Jewish Neoconservatism. Radical History Review, 75. 3-27.

(1997). Black Panthers, New Journalism, and the Rewriting of the Sixties. Representations, 57. 53-73.

(1995). The Shoah goes on and on: Remembrance and Representation in Art Spiegelman's. Maus, MELUS, 20(3). 33-46.

(1991). (Re)Collecting the Past: Writing Native American Speech. American Quarterly, 43. 425-56.

(1991). “(Re)Collecting the Past: Writing Native American Speech. American Quarterly, 43. 425-56.

(1988). The Struggle for Selfness' through Speech in Olsen's Yonnondio: From the Thirties. Studies in American Fiction, 16. 131-9.

(1988). As Close As You Can Get: Torment, Speech, and LIstening in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Mississippi Quarterly, 61. 147-60.

Staub, M. (1988). White Moth and Ox: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Helen Hunt Jackson. Dickinson Studies, 66. 17-25.

(1984). A Dickinson Diagnosis. Dickinson Studies, 54. 43-6.

Book Chapters

Staub, M. (2023). “Environmental Justice". In Buhle, M. J., Buhle, P., & Georgakas, D. (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of the American Left, 3rd Ed. New York,Verso. Verso.

Staub, M. (2019). “Race, Holocaust Memory, and American Jewish Politics". In Gilbert, S., & Alba , A. (Eds.), Holocaust Memory and Racism in the Postwar World (pp. 196-218). Detroit,US. Wayne State University Press.

Staub, M. E. (2019). “Wrestling with Politics: Jewish American Writing from Left to Right”. In Aarons, V. (Ed.), New Jewish American Studies (pp. 45-58). New York ,US. Cambridge University Press.

Staub, M. (2019). “Race, Holocaust Memory, and American Jewish Politics". In Gilbert, S., & Alba , A. (Eds.), Holocaust Memory and Racism in the Postwar World Wayne State University Press.

Staub, M. (2017). “American Jews and the Middle East Crisis". In Wiese, C., & Wilhelm, C. (Eds.), American Jewry: Transcending the European Experience? (pp. 327-343). London,UK. Bloomsbury.

Staub, M. (2015). Radical. In Aubry, T., & Travis, T. A. (Eds.), Rethinking Therapeutic Culture (pp. 96-107). Chicago, IL,USA. University of Chicago Press.

Staub, M. (2015). "Radical" (book chapter). In Aubry, T., & Travis, T. A. (Eds.), Rethinking Therapeutic Culture University of Chicago Press.

Staub, M. (2012). "American Jews and the Middle East Crisis" (book chapter). In Wiese, C., & Wilhelm, C. (Eds.), American Jewry (p. forthcoming). London UK,UK. Bloomsbury.

Staub, M. (2011). "Authoritarianism and the Making of Post-Holocaust Personality Studies". In Sundquist, E. J., & Cesarani, D. (Eds.), After the Holocaust: Challenging the Myth of Silence (pp. 127-138). New York, New York,US. Routledge.

Staub, M. (2007). Holocaust Consciousness and American Jewish Politics”. In Raphael, M. L. (Ed.), The Columbia History of the Jewish People in America (pp. 313-336). Columbia University Press.

Staub, M. (2004). "The Politics of Holocaust Consciousness" (book chapter). In Glassner, B., & Lachoff, H. T. (Eds.), The Jewish Role in American Life (pp. 108-142). USC Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life.

Staub, M. (2003). If We Really Care About Israel: Breira and the Limits of Dissent,”. In Kushner, T., & Solomon, A. (Eds.), Wrestling with Zion Progressive Jewish-American REsponses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (pp. 89-105). Grove Press.

Staub, M. (2000). "Setting Up the Seventies" (book chapter). In Waldrep, S. (Ed.), The Seventies (pp. 19-40). Routledge.

Staub, M. (1997). The Whitest I: On Reading the Hill-Thomas Transcripts,”. In Hill, M. (Ed.), Whiteness: A Critical Reader (pp. 47-62). New York University Press.

Staub, M. (1994). Labor Activism and the Post-War Politics of Motherhood: Tillie Olsen in the People’s World”. In Hoyle Nelson, K., & Huse, N. (Eds.), The Critical Response to Tillie Olsen (pp. 104-9). Greenwood,.

Staub, M. (1990). Contradictory Memories, Conflicted Identities: The Autobiographical Writing of Kingston and Rodriguez”. In Karrer, W., & Lutz, H. (Eds.), Minority Literatures in North America (pp. 65-76). Peter Lang.

Staub, M. (1990). Tillie Olsen”. In Buhle, M. J. (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of the American Left (pp. 546-7). Garland.

Media Contributions

Staub, M. (2019). "The Mismeasure of Minds".

https://bostonreview.net/race/michael-e-staub-mismeasure-minds

Presentations

Staub, M. (2021, October 31). “‘Silent Vietnam’: The Antiwar Roots of Environmental Justice Activism. American Studies Association Annual Meeting. virtual: American Studies Association.

Staub, M. (2018, November 9). “Self-Work: A Racial History of Emotional Intelligence". American Studies Association Annual Conference. Atlanta, GA: American Studies Association.

Staub, M. (2017, November 9). On Racism and Ritalin. American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL: American Studies Association.

Staub, M. (2015, June 18). The Neuroscience Revolution in Social Psychology. Annual Meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences. Lawrence, KS: Cheiron.

Staub, M. (2015, October 10). “Imaging Race: ‘Brain Stories’ about Prejudice and Identity". American Studies Association Annual Conference. Toronto: American Studies Association.

Staub, M. (2015, February 15). The Jewish 1968: Towards a Global Perspective. The Jewish 1968 and Its Legacies (Stanford University). Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University, Graduate School of Education.

Staub, M. (2014, September 10). Dichotomania: Split-Brain Research and the Rise of the Neuroscience Revolution. Yale School of Medicine. Yale School of Medicine: Psychiatry and Culture from a Historical Perspective Working Group.

Staub, M. (2014, June 19). One Now or Two Later: Walter Mischel’s Marshmallow Experiments and the Inheritance of Class,. Annual Meeting of the International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences. Hood College, Frederick MD: Cheiron.

Staub, M. (2011, November 29). "The Evolution of Jewish Radicalism". National Museum of American Jewish History. Philadelphia: National Museum of American Jewish History.

Staub, M. (2011, October 22). "Foucault and the Bag Lady". American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Washington DC: American Studies Association.

Staub, M. (2010, December 21). "Jewish Family Quarrels". Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. Boston: Association for Jewish Studies.

Staub, M. (2010, June 15). "Jewish Feminism Confronts ‘the Jewish Science’: Madness and the Women's Movement in the 1960s-1970s". 2010 Biennial Scholars’ Conference on American Jewish History. New York

Staub, M. (2009, November 6). "Psycho Politics Reconsidered: Anti-Psychiatry and the Long 1950s". American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Washington D.C.: American Studies Association.

Staub, M. (2009, October 26). "Authoritarianism and the Making of Post-Holocaust Personality Studies". The Myth of Silence: Who Spoke about the Holocaust and When Conference. Los Angeles: UCLA.

Staub, M. (2008, September 25). "Psycho Politics in Postwar America". Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Princeton NJ: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

Staub, M. (2007, October 12). "Madness is Civilization: Asylums in the 1960s". American Studies Association Annual Meeting Meeting. Philadelphia: American Studies Association.

Staub, M. (2006, June 6). "Israel and the Making of American Jewish Identities". Conference on American Jewish History. Charleston: Seventh Biennial Scholars.

Staub, M. (2006, March 26). "Jewish Student Activism in the 1960s". Kent, OH: Kent State University.

Staub, M. (2005, November 3). "The Legacy of the Holocaust for American Jews". Protesting Prejudice after the Holocaust. Washington, D.C.: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Staub, M. (2005, May 25). "American Jews and the Middle East Crisis". Conference on 350 Years of American Jewry. Munich, Germany: Bayerische Akademie für Politische Bildung, Tutzing.

Staub, M. (2005, February 10). "From Black Power to Jewish Radicalism". A Look at Student Activism in the 1960s. Asheville, NC: University of North Carolina-Asheville.

Staub, M. (2004, November 14). "Jewish in the Era of Endless War". American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Atlanta: American Studies Association.

Staub, M. (2003, October 18). "Smart: Keyword in the New Jewish Studies". American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Hartford: American Studies Association.

Staub, M. (2002, November 16). The ‘Neighborhood School’ Movement and the Defeat of Desegregation in New York. American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Houston: American Studies Association.

Staub, M. (2002, October 16). New Left Jews and Radical Zionism. : Babson College, Division of History and Society.

Staub, M. (2002, June 11). 'Are You Against the Jewish Family?’: Debating Feminism and the Sexual Revolution. Fifth Biennial Scholars' Conference on American Jewish History. Albany

Staub, M. (2000, December 28). Dirty Linen: New Left Jews and the Making of Modern Identity Politics. Modern Language Association Convention. Washington, D.C: MLA.

Staub, M. (2000, May 4). How American Jews Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Themselves. Jewish Studies Program. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College.

Staub, M. (2000, June 5). The Breira Controversy and the Limits of Dissent. Fourth Biennial Scholars Conference on American Jewish History. Denver

Staub, M. (2000, June 24). Plenary Session on “The Cultural Reach of the Humanities,” at the “Possible Futures for the Humanities: A Working Symposium. Possible Futures for the Humanities. Eugene: American Council of Learned Societies and the University of Oregon.

Staub, M. (1999, December 31). From Black Power to Jewish Radicalism, 1966-1974. American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Montreal

Staub, M. (1999, December 31). Jewish Youth Activism in the Sixties. New England American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Boston: New England American Studies Association.

Staub, M. (1998, December 31). “‘Negroes are not Jews’: African-American Activism and Jewish Holocaust Consciousness. Conference on American Jewish History. Cincinnati: Third Biennial Scholars’.

Staub, M. (1996, December 31). Holocaust Consciousness, Black Masculinity, and the Renegotiation of Jewish American Identity. American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Kansas City (: American Studies Association.

Staub, M. (1995, December 31). Reporting the Crisis: New Journalism, Black Panthers, Moral Panic. Chicago: Modern Language Association Convention.

Staub, M. (1995, December 31). Constructions of White Identity in Contemporary Crime Fiction. Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. Louisville

Staub, M. (1995, December 31). Panthermania. Sixties Generations Conference. Danbury, CT

Staub, M. (1994, December 31). Drawing the Lines: Racial Cartographies in New Crime Fiction. Providence: New England American Studies Association.

Staub, M. (1993, December 31). The Whitest I: (E)Race(ing) Positions in the Hill-Thomas Hearings. American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Boston

Staub, M. (1993, December 31). Ethnic Identity and the Politics of Memory in Post-Holocaust Literature,. Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. Louisville

Staub, M. (1992, December 31). Giving the People Voice: Persuasion and Representation in Communist Periodicals. Conference on The Thirties: History, Literature, and Culture. Youngstown, OH

Staub, M. (1992, December 31). Love and Anarchy in the Suburbs“: The Films of Hal Hartley. Grenoble: French Association for American Studies.

Staub, M. (1992, May 24). Love and Anarchy in the Suburbs: The Films of Hal Hartley,” French Association for American. French Association for American Studies.

Staub, M. (1990, December 31). Talking Black’ and Talking BackLiterary Strategies for Documenting Speech in Zora Neale Hurston. Cambridge MA: Oral History Association Annual Meeting.

Staub, M. (1990, December 31). Telling Differences: Gender and Speech in The Autobiography of a PapagoWoman. Chicago: MELUS Annual Convention.

Staub, M. (1990, December 31). When There Is a Listener in the Text: Oral Theory and Ethnic Narrative. Chicago: Modern Language Association Convention.

Staub, M. (1989, December 31). John Dos Passos, James Agee and the Dilemma of Documentary Expression in Thirties America. Toronto: American Studies Association Annual Meeting.

Staub, M. (1989, December 31). “(Re)Collecting the Past: Transcriptions of Native American Speech. Washington, D.C: Modern Language Association Convention.

Staub, M. (1988, December 31). Elements of Protest in the Literature of Jewish Immigrants, 1890-1930. German Society for American Studies Conference. : University of Regensburg.

Staub, M. (1988, December 31). Recovery Acts: Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright during the 1930s,” Symposium on the Twentieth-Century Black Experience in the United States. Amerika Haus Frankfurt

Staub, M. (1988, December 31). Facing the Thirties: John Dos Passos and the Sacco-Vanzetti Case. NEH Seminar on Literature and Culture of the 1930s. City University of New York

Staub, M. (1988, December 31). Hunger of Memory: Writings of Maxine Hong Kingston and Richard Rodriguez. Symposium on Minority Literatures in North America. : University of Osnabrück.

Staub, M. (1987, December 31). Teaching Ethnic Literature in the Classroom: Lecture and Workshop. American Studies Teachers' Conference. Amerika Haus Hannover

Staub, M. (1987, December 31). Speech and Survival in Black Elk Speaks. Boston: New England Modern Language Association..

Other Scholarly Works

Staub, M. (1987). Working Lives: An Oral History of Rhode Island Labor. 46(7),

Reviews

Staub, M. (1970,January 1). rev. of Joseph Darda, The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism. Journal of American Ethnic History. University of Illinois Press.

Staub, M. (1970,January 1). rev. of Shaul Magid, Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical . Baltimore MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Staub, M. (2021,July 1). rev. of Jason Schnittker, Unnerved: Anxiety, Social Change, and the Transformation of Modern Mental Health. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences.

Staub, M. (2020,October 1). "Unhappiness Studies". American Journal of Psychology.

Staub, M. (2018,September 1). rev. of Daniel Horowitz, Happier? The History of a Cultural Movement That Aspired to Transform America. ALH Online Review.

Staub, M. (2017,October 1). Rev. of Lori Clune, Executing the Rosenbergs: Death and Diplomacy in a Cold War World. American Jewish History .

Staub, M. (2016,April 1). Rev. of Paul B. Armstrong, How Literature Plays with the Brain: The Neuroscience of Reading and Art. ALH Online.

Staub, M. (2015,April 1). Rev. of Martin Halliwell, Therapeutic Revolutions: Medicine, Psychiatry, and American Culture, 1945-1970. American Historical Review.

Staub, M. (2014,May 1). Rev. of Mical Raz, What’s Wrong with the Poor?: Psychiatry, Race, and the War on Poverty. Social History of Medicine.

Staub, M. (2012,October 1). Rev. of Richard Noll, American Madness. American Historical Review.

Staub, M. (2011,December 1). Rev. of Beth Wenger, History Lessons. American Historical Review.

Staub, M. (2010,December 1). Rev. of Jonathan Metzl, The Protest Psychosis. The Sixties .

Staub, M. (2010,March 1). Rev. of Ellen M. Eisenberg, The First to Cry Down Injustice?. Journal of American History.

Staub, M. (2007,April 1). Rev. of Kirsten Fermaglich, American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares. Shoah.

Staub, M. (2006,June 1). Rev. of Commentary in American Life, Murray Friedman. American Jewish History.

Staub, M. (2005,January 1). So Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism, Kenneth Warren. South Atlantic Review.

Staub, M. (2004,January 1). Who’s Afraid of American Studies. Tikkun.

Staub, M. (2003,January 1). Jerald E. Podair, The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean-Hill Brownsville Crisis. Death at an Early Age in The Nation.

Staub, M. (2003,January 1). Militant Zionism in America: The Rise and Impact of the Jabotinsky Movement in the United States Rafael Medoff. American Historical Review.

Staub, M. (1999,January 1). Seth Forman, Blacks in the Jewish Mind: A Crisis of Liberalism. American Jewish History.

Staub, M. (1995,January 1). Blow by Blow” (on Robert Gooding-Williams, ed., Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising. The Minnesota Review.

Staub, M. (1994,January 1). James Agee, Reconsiderations. Mississippi Quarterly.

Staub, M. (1993,January 1). Inside the L.A. Riots: What Really Happened, in Revue. Française D'Études Americaines.

Staub, M. (1991,January 1). on Alessandro Portelli, The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History.

Research Currently in Progess

Staub, M.(n.d.). A History of Environmental and Anti-Environmental Thought Since the 1960s. In Progress.

My current work in progress examines the contemporary roots of environmental justice activism in the late 1960s and 1970s, as well as the ideological backlash to demean and dismiss ecological causes at an historical moment of real opportunity for social and political activism.

Title	Funding Agency Sponsor	Start Date	End Date	Awarded Date	Total Funding	Status
Reforming the Brain: Race and Psychology between Brown and The Bell Curve	PSC-CUNY 48	07/01/2017	06/30/2018	04/14/2017	3000	Completed
Hard Wired: The Politics of Social Neuroscience	PSC-CUNY 44	07/01/2013	06/30/2014	04/15/2013	3000	Completed
Enough to Drive Anybody Crazy: The Double Bind Theory in America	PSC-CUNY 42	07/01/2011	06/30/2012	04/15/2011	3000	Completed
Farming with Petroleum: Environmentalism in Conflict	PSC-CUNY 54	07/01/2023	06/30/2024	04/18/2023	5990	Funded - In Progress

Honor / Award	Organization Sponsor	Date Received	Description
2019 PROSE Award Finalist (Psychology category)	Association of American Publishers (AAP)	2019	2019 PROSE Award Finalist (Psychology category) from the Association of American Publishers (AAP)
Best Article for the year, 2016	Division 26 (History of Psychology), American Psychological Assocation	2017	Award to acknowledge the best article for the year, as determined by Division 26 (History of Psychology) of the American Psychological Association.
PSC-CUNY Research Award, 2017-2018.		2017
Provost's Award for Faculty Book Publication	Provost's Office, Baruch College CUNY	2017	This award is intended to provide faculty with support to complete work on revisions to a book manuscript that has been invited for submission and received readers' reports from a highly regarded academic press.
PSC CUNY Grant	PSC CUNY	2013
Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching	Honors Program	2012
PSC-CUNY Grant	PSC-CUNY	2011
Fellowship	Institute for Advanced Study	2008	I was a Member in the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, during the academic year, 2008-2009, to write a book manuscript (which has been completed and published in 2011 with the University of Chicago Press).
Fellowship	Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, Bowling Green State University	2000
Fulbright Junior Lecturership in American Studies	West Germany	1988

College

Committee Name	Position Role	End Date
Susan Locke Award Committee	Committee Member	Present
Honors Commitee	Committee Member	Present
Honors Program Advisory Committee	Committee Member	Present
Jewish Studies Program Committee	Committee Member	1/31/2015
Executive Committee	Committee Member	9/1/2013
Social Committee	Committee Member	12/31/2009

Professional

Organization	Position Role	Start Date	End Date
Society for the History of Psychology, Best Article in History of Psychology Committee	Chairperson	6/1/2020	8/31/2023
The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture	Manuscript Reader		12/31/2021
American Literary History	Reviewer, Journal Article		12/31/2019
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History	Reviewer, Journal Article		12/31/2019
Johns Hopkins University Press	Reviewer, Book		12/31/2018
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences	Reviewer, Journal Article	1/1/2018	12/31/2018
Routledge	Reviewer, Book		12/31/2016
Journal of the History of Sexuality	Reviewer, Journal Article		12/31/2015
Social History of Medicine	Reviewer, Journal Article	1/1/2015	12/31/2015
University of Chicago Press	Reviewer, Book		12/31/2014
Patterns of Prejudice	Reviewer, Journal Article		12/31/2012
Temple University Press	Reviewer, Book		12/31/2012
Oxford University Press	Reviewer, Book		12/31/2012
Palgrave Macmillan	Reviewer, Book		12/31/2011
American Jewish Historical Archives	Reviewer, Journal Article		12/31/2004
Blackwell Publishers	Reviewer, Book		12/31/2002
Columbia University Press	Reviewer, Book		12/31/2002
New York University Press	Reviewer, Book		12/31/2001
Cambridge University Press	Reviewer, Book		12/31/2000
Modern Fiction Studies	Reviewer, Journal Article		12/31/1996
MELUS	Reviewer, Journal Article		12/31/1996
Contemporary Literature	Reviewer, Journal Article		12/31/1995