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Distinguished Professor, Ph.D.
Race, ethnicity, and immigration; urban sociology; sociology of knowledge
Powdermaker Hall, Room 250
Phone: 718-997-5130
ssteinberg1@gc.cuny.edu
Steinberg teaches courses on Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration and Race, Ethnicity, and Public Policy. He also teaches the required graduate and undergraduate course on Urban Research Methods, an innovative course that emphasizes the development of critical skills in reading and interpreting social science research. His interest in improving the quality of student research and writing is reflected in a book that he co-authored with Sharon Friedman, Writing and Thinking in the Social Sciences (Prentice-Hall, 1989).
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Research Interests
Stephen Steinberg, a sociologist, is an internationally renowned authority on race and ethnicity in the United States. Publications
His most recent book, Race Relations: A Critique (Stanford University Press, 2007), was featured in the Research & Books Column of the Chronicle of Higher Education: “A Sociologist Offers a Harsh Assessment of How His Discipline Treats Race Relations,” by David Glenn.
Steinberg’s previous book, Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy (Beacon Press, 1995 & 2001), was included in Choice Magazine’s 1996 list of Outstanding Academic Books, and received the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship.
The Ethnic Myth (1982, 1989, 2001) is widely recognized as one of the leading critical interpretations of race, ethnicity, and class in America.
Other books include The Academic Melting Pot and The Tenacity of Prejudice.
Recent papers include:
“The Role of Race in the Devolution of the Left,” LOGOS (2011: Vol. 10, issue 2)
“Poor Reason: Culture still doesn’t explain poverty.” Boston Review (January 13, 2011)
"The Myth of Concentrated Poverty" in The Integration Debate: Competing Futures for American Cities, Ed. by Chester Hartman and Gregory D. Squires (Routledge, 2010)
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Marcia Bayne-Smith
Associate Professor
| Melissa Checker
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
| Dana-ain Davis
Associate Professor, M.P.H., Ph.D.
| Martin Hanlon
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
| Tarry Hum
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
| Christos Ioannides
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
| Madhulika Khandelwal
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
| Jeff Maskovsky
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
| William Muraskin
Professor, Ph.D.
| Leonard Rodberg
Professor, Ph.D.
| Alice Sardell
Professor, Ph.D.
| John E. Seley
Professor, Ph.D.
| Stephen Steinberg
Distinguished Professor, Ph.D.
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