Gary Gerstle

Professor
Ph.D. Harvard, 1982
20th-century America, politics and society, labor, immigration, and ethnicity
phone: 301-405-4299
gerstleg@umd.edu

Professor Gerstle is the author of Working-Class Americanism: The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914-1960 (1989, republished with a new preface, 2002) and American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century (2001). He is also co-editor of The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980 (1989) and E Pluribus Unum? Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation (2001). His many articles include "The Protean Character of American Liberalism" (American Historical Review, 1994), "Theodore Roosevelt and the Divided Character of American Nationalism" (Journal of American History, 1999), and "Liberty, Coercion, and the Making of Americans" (Journal of American History, 1997). This last article has been anthologized in The Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience and republished in Spanish in Desarrollo Economico, an Argentine journal. Gerstle has received numerous fellowships, including an NEH, a Guggenheim, and a membership in the Institute for Advanced Study, and has served as the Annenberg Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and as a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociale in Paris. In addition to France, he has lectured throughout the United States and in England, Belgium, the Netherlands, Israel, Japan, and Brazil. He co-edits a book series, Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America, for Princeton University Press, serves on the editorial board of the Journal of American History and the nominating board for the American Studies Association, and directs the Center for Historical Studies at the University of Maryland. Finally, he is co-author of two college-level textbooks, Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People, now in its third edition, and America Transformed: A History of the United States Since 1900 (1999).