Education: Columbia College, B.A. l958, Masters of Phil. l976 for work completed in l964, Oslo University (Summer l96l), City College School of Education, l96l-l962. [top]

Awards: New York State Scholarship, New York State Regents College Teaching Fellowship, Scholarship for study at Oslo University, l961, Danforth Associates l980-1986. [top]

NEH Summer Grants:
CUNY l980: The Radical Tradition in America,
Princeton l987: Insights into Ottoman Statecraft.
Princeton 1989: Modernization & the Ottoman Empire/Turkey
CUNY 1991: Modern America 1917-1941.

High rank in student-faculty evaluations.
Initial Recipient of LIU's David Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1988.[top]

Courses: History of World Civilizations, Western Civilization, Surveys of American History, The Colonial Era in America, American Social History (introduced) History of Sports (introduced), History of Islam (introduced), City as Melting Pot (graduate), School & Society (graduate), Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science, Great Books (Colloquium), Social Science & Media (honors), Developmental Reading, Culture & Society in Humor (introduced), Speech, Sociology of Communication, Urban Politics (graduate), History of New York City (graduate), The President and the Indian (capstone), The Monkey (interdisciplinary), War & Peace.Primates and Us(experimental interdisciplinary course: History and anthropology).  [top]

Committees: Chair, Writing Across the Curriculum, Chair, Athletic Policies, University Faculty Senate, Treasurer & Executive Board, Faculty Union, AFT Local 3998, Judicial Review, Faculty Elections, Writing Across the Curriculum Task Force, Newton Awards

Conference Director: “Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports, and the American Dream,” Long Island University: Brooklyn, April 3-5, 1997.

Conference Director: “Paul Robeson: Life and Legacy” at Long Island University: Brooklyn, February 28, 1998.

Conference Co-Director: “Brooklyn: A City Apart--100 Years of Amalgamation”, Long Island University, October 21-23, 1998

Conference Co-Director and Keynote Speaker: “The History and Cultural Significance of Basketball,” St. Francis College, November 2-3, 2001

Elder-Hostel: “Jewish Humor,” Educational Alliance, October 1997, October 1998, July 1999, July 2000; "Hank Greenberg & Jackie Robinson," July 2000.
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Publications: " Terence Malley remembered" Nine 13:2 (Spring 2005): v-vi;- “Frank Sinatra: Pride, Passion, and Politics,” in S. Pugliese, ed. Frank Sinatra: History, Identity, and Italian American Culture (New York: Palgrave, 2004), 23-31; “New York City” with G. Lankevich in Peter Rollins, ed. The Columbia Companion on Film & History (New York: Columbia UP, 2004), 437-446; “Milton Berle,“ The Scribner Ecyclopedia of American Lives Vol.6 (2004), 41-44, “A Life Worth Living: The Jackie Robinson Biopic” in John Manbeck & Robert Singers, eds. The Brooklyn Film (Jefferson NC: McFarland, 2003), 148-158; “Lenny Bruce” and “Jerry Lewis,” The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: The 1960s (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003), 119-121, 596-598; “Jackie Robinson” The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: Sports Figures (New York:: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2002), 290-292: Paul Robeson: Essays on His Life and Legacy with William Pencak (Jefferson NC: McFarland, 2001)."Danny Kaye: Toomler" in Jews of Brooklyn (Hanover NH: New England Press, 2001), 311-317; "Heroes and Heroines in Sports“ and "Sportswriters" in Encyclopedia of American Popular Culture, 772-73, 777-78; “From Soup to Nuts: Laughter in the Suburbs—Alan King and Billy Crystal” in Joanne Krieg & Natalie Naylor, eds. Nassau County…(New York: Empire State Books, 2000), 282-291; "'Hammerin” Hank Is Back” Long Island Jewish World (January 21-27. 2000),: 4, 32; “My Hero, Hank” Op-Ed, New York Daily News (January 15, 2000), 17; Paul Robeson: A Symposium edited with William Pencak , (College Park, PA: Pennsylvania History Press, 1998); Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports and the American Dream edited with Joram Warmund (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998); “From Jack Johnson to Muhammad Ali: Black Heroes in American Sports” Journal of Popular Culture (Spring 1998); “Marianne Moore & The Brooklyn Dodgers,” in Natalie Naylor, editor, Long Island Women: Activists and Innovators, (Westport Ct: Greenwood Press, Spring 1998); Jackie Robinson: The New York Times Newspaper in Education Curriculum Guide (New York: New York Times Company, 1997) “Jackie’s a Hero Now--But He Wasn’t Always” Op-Ed, The New York Daily News (March 28, 1997), 41; “The Enigma of Babe Ruth” Nine 4:2 (Spring 1996), 387-388; Anyone Here A Sailor?: Popular Entertainment and the Navy with Dennis Carpenter (Great Neck NY: Brightlights Publications, 1994); "The Educational Alliance: An Institutional Study in Americanization and Acculturation" in Michael D'Innocenzo & Joseph P. Sirefman, eds., Immigration and Ethnicity... (Westport: Greenwood Press 1992, 93-107; "The Suburbanization of Brooklyn; Persistence Without Plan" in Barbara Kelly, Long Island: The Suburban Experience (Interlaken: LISI, 1990) 14-23; "Brooklyn: The Elusive Image," Long Island Historical Journal 1:2 (Spring 1989), 128-135; "Danny Kaye! Hollywood Toomler" Genesis 2 (Spring 1988), 37-38; "Racial and Ethnic Humor" with Joseph Boskin in Lawrence E. Mintz, ed., Humor in America: Topics and Genres (Westport, ct: Greenwood Press, 1988), 163-193; "Ethnic Humor: Subversion and Survival" with Joseph Boskin in Arthur P. Dudden, ed. American Humor (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, l987), 97-ll7; this appeared earlier in the American Quarterly 37:1 (Spring l985), 81-97; “The Jew as Comic: Lenny Bruce, Mel Brooks, and Woody Allen" in Avner Ziv, ed., Jewish Humor (Tel Aviv: Papyrus Press, l986), 29-43. "The Gold-Dust Twins of Marginal Humor: Blacks & Jews," Maledicta, 8 (l985), l63-l92. "Coney Island" NAHO (New York State Museum: Summer l983), 9- 11. "Jewish Politics: The Art of Survival," in Joseph Roucek & Bernard Eisenberg , eds., Ethnic Politics (Westport: Greenwood Press, l982), 233-251. "Lenny Bruce: A Jewish Humorist in Babylon," Jewish Currents 35:2 (February l98l), l4-l9, 31-32."Jewish Humor: Mechanism for Defense; Cutting Edge of Cultural Affirmation," The Journal of Psychohistory 8:4 (Spring l98l), 447-464. [top]

Book Reviews: "Press Box Red," American Communist History 3:2 (2004), 288-90; “Why the French Love Jerry Lewis,” Humor: International Journal of Humor (2004), 335-338; “American Jewish Comedians,” Jewish Currents (November-December 2002), 36-37; "Inventing Jerry Lewis: A Review," Humor: International Journal of Humor (November 2001), 409-414; "Raising Reds: A Review," Science & Society; 65 (Summer 2001), 247-249; “The Bronx: Lost, Found and Remembered 1935-1975,” The Journal of American Culture 103-105; “Tender Comrades…” Left History 159-161; “Let It Ring” Jewish Currents (November 1999), 32-33; USA’s Fascist Future?”, Jewish Currents (June 1998), 26-27;“A Bundle of Contradictions” Film & History 26: 1-4 (1996), 100-101; “Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture,” Journal of American Culture 19:1 (Spring 1996), 97-99; “Orson Welles: Destined for Destruction” Film & History (Summer, 1996), 387-388; "Is It to Laugh?" Jewish Currents (March l990), 36-37; "A Whole New Ball Game," History Reviews of New Books 17:4 (Summer 1989), 158; "Food for Thought: Jewish Wry" Jewish Currents (June 1988), 31-33; "Hooray for Rosten & Yiddish," Jewish Currents (July-August l985), 27-29; "No Laughing Matter..." The Journal of Psychohistory: l2:4 (Spring l985) 530-533; "Make 'em Laugh; Make 'em Think," The Journal of Psychohistory l0:4 (Spring l983), 551-553; "America the Nightclub," Jewish Currents (June l982), 36-37. [top]

Forthcoming Publications:
                 "Italian-Americans in Baseball," J. Vlasic, ed. Sports History (Jefferson NC: McFarland, 2005).  [top]
                 "Larry Doby" and "Monte Irvin" biographical entries, The Encyclopedia of African- American History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2006)
                "Yankee from Olympus: Babe Ruth and Baseball in the Bronx." in Robert N. Keane, ed. Babe Ruth and The Sultan of Swat (2006).