Areas of Expertise
A noted authority in the field of popular culture,
Dorinson's research specialties span sports history (in
particular, the Brooklyn Dodgers and African American sports heros),
humor studies, Russian immigration, Brooklyn and Jewish history,
and World War II movies and music. He is the co-editor of Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports and the American
Dream (M.E. Sharpe, 1998) and co-editor
of Paul Robeson:Essays on His Life and Legacy (Mcfarland, 2002). In addition to coordinating a successful
conference marking the 50th anniversary of Robinson breaking Major League
Baseball's color barrier, he also coordinated a conference on Paul Robeson (1998), on the borough of Brooklyn (1998)
and on Basletball: The City Game (2001). His
television appearances have included Fox News on Joe DiMaggio; NBC Morning
News on Al Gore's acceptance speech; the WLIW-TV
program, "Brooklyn: The Way It Was;" and New York 1 News. On radio, he
has appeared several times on WNYC-AM's "New
York and Company," hosted by Leonard Lopate,
WOR, and CBS. Dorinson has been
quoted in major newspapers such as the Baltimore
Sun, the Chicago Tribune,
the New York Daily News, the Christian Science Monitor and the Newark
Star-Ledger on such topics as ill manners in sports, nostalgia TV,
the use and abuse of cell phones, and the crime wave in the National Football
League, and Joe DiMaggio's death. His op-ed piece on Hank Greenberg, "My
Hero, Hank," appeared in the New
York Daily News on January 15, 2000, and op-ed pieces on Jackie Robinson,
"Jackie's a Hero Now-But He Wasn't Always," and Paul Robeson, "Paul Robeson, All-American,"
appeared in the New York Daily
News in 1997 and 1998, respectively.
Among Dorinson's other publications are Paul
Robeson (1898-1976): A Centennial Symposium (co-edited)
in Pennsylvania History (Winter
1999); "Ethnic Humor: Subversion and Survival" in What's So Funny? Humor in American Culture; the book, Anyone Here A Sailor? Popular
Entertainment and the Navy (Bright Lights Publications, 1994); "The
Educational Alliance: An Institutional Study in Americanization and Acculturation"
in Immigration and Ethnicity (1992);
"Brooklyn: The Elusive Image" in Is Anyone Here From Brooklyn (1990); and "Racial and Ethnic Humor" in Humor in America: Topics and Genres
(1988). An authority on Lenny Bruce, Woody Allen and Mel Brooks, Dorinson's
comments on ethnic humor were syndicated in an article that originally
appeared in The Wall Street Journal.
He has presented papers at Hofstra University's conferences on Frank Sinatra
and Babe Ruth.
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Web Links
- To access Professor Dorinson's web page,
click here
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- To read Professor Dorinson's review of _The Bronx: Lost, Found
and Remembered, 1935-1975_, by Sephen M. Samtur and Martin A. Jackson,
click here
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- To read Professor Dorinson's review of _American Superrealism: Nathanial West and the Politics of Representation in the 1930s_, by Jonathan
Veitch,
click here
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