Thomas J. Sugrue
About
Sugrue is a scholar of inequality, racial politics, public policy and social movements. Trained as a historian of the modern United States and Great Britain, he has published on a wide range of topics, including the history of American cities and suburbs, race, immigration and metropolitan space, civil rights, liberal and conservative politics, labor, and social movements. He is currently working on two projects, one on the history of rent in the United States, the other on racialized urban spaces in France and Brazil. He has given more than 400 lectures and seminars worldwide and consulted for many museums, foundations, and documentary films.
Awards
- Walter Lippmann Fellow, American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2016
- Andrew Carnegie Fellow, Carnegie Corporation of New York (2015-17)
- President, Urban History Association (2013-14)
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2011
Relevant Publications
- Sugrue, T. (2010). Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race: Princeton University Press.
- Sugrue, T. (2008). Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North. Random House.
- Sugrue, T. (1996). The Origins of the Urban Crisis. Princeton University Press.