Glenn C. Altschuler
Encyclopedia
Glenn Altschuler is the Vice President for University Relations, the Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions, the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies, and a Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University
. He received his Ph.D. in American History from Cornell in 1976 and has been an administrator and teacher at Cornell since 1981.
Altschuler is noted for his work on the history of American popular culture. He believes that popular culture is "contested terrain" -- in which social and economic groups struggle to make their marks on society. Since 1991, he has served as Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions. His year-long course in American Popular Culture is among the most popular in the university.
For four years Altschuler wrote a column on higher education for the Education Life section of the New York Times. From 2002-2005, he was a regular panelist on national and international affairs for the WCNY television program The Ivory Tower Half-Hour.
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
. He received his Ph.D. in American History from Cornell in 1976 and has been an administrator and teacher at Cornell since 1981.
Altschuler is noted for his work on the history of American popular culture. He believes that popular culture is "contested terrain" -- in which social and economic groups struggle to make their marks on society. Since 1991, he has served as Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions. His year-long course in American Popular Culture is among the most popular in the university.
For four years Altschuler wrote a column on higher education for the Education Life section of the New York Times. From 2002-2005, he was a regular panelist on national and international affairs for the WCNY television program The Ivory Tower Half-Hour.
Prizes and Awards
Clark Teaching Award, the Donna and Robert Paul Award for Excellence in Faculty Advising, the Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Award for Outstanding Advising, and the 2006 Stephen H. Weiss Presidential FellowshipBooks
- The GI Bill: A New Deal for Veterans (co-authored with Stuart M. Blumin, Oxford University Press 2009)
- The 100 Most Notable Cornellians (co-authored with Isaac Kramnick and R. Laurence Moore, Cornell University Press 2003)
- All Shook Up: How Rock ‘n Roll Changed America (Oxford University Press 2003)
- Rude Republic: Americans and Their Politics in the 19th Century (co-authored with Stuart M. Blumin, Princeton University Press 2000)
- Changing Channels: America In TV Guide (co-authored with David I. Grossvogel, University of Illinois Press 1992)
- Better Than Second Best: Love and Work in the Life of Helen Magill (University of Illinois Press 1990)
- Revivalism, Social Conscience and Community in the Burned-Over District (co-authored with Jan M. Saltzgaber, Cornell University Press 1983)
- Race, Ethnicity, and Class in American Social Thought, 1865-1919 (American History Series, John Hope Franklin and A. S. Eisenstadt, eds., Harlan Davidson, Inc. 1982)
- Andrew D. White-Educator, Historian, Diplomat (Cornell University Press 1979)