Thomas Kessner
Thomas Kessner is an American historian, a Distinguished Professor at City University of New York, and an author.Education
Kessner is a graduate of Brooklyn College and earned his doctorate at Columbia University in 1975 with distinction.Career
He was appointed as distinguished professor at The Graduate Center in 2005. His special areas of interest are American urban and social history and the history of New York City.
He has served as a consultant to the New York City Board of Education, the Ellis Island Museum, the New-York Historical Society, the Museum of the City of New York, and many other scholarly and professional institutions. He was also an associate editor for The Encyclopedia of New York City and has directed more than half a dozen NEH summer seminars for college and high school teachers.Selected works
Books
co-authored with Betty Boyd Caroli
Kessner’s work has garnered awards and fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies.
