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Pages in category "Brooklyn College faculty" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 400 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Brooklyn College was founded in 1930. [5] That year, as directed by the New York City Board of Higher Education on April 22, the college authorized the combination of the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College, at that time a city women's college, and the City College of New York, then a men's college (both these branches had been established in 1926).
Joel H. Silbey (B.A. 1955), historian and President White Professor of History at Cornell University; Richard Slotkin (B.A. 1963), cultural critic and historian of the Western United States; Clarence Taylor (B.A. 1975), professor emeritus of History at Baruch College and author of books on racism, religion, and civil rights in 20th-century America
Robert David Johnson (born November 27, 1967), [1] also known as KC Johnson, is an American history professor at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He played a major role in reporting on the Duke University lacrosse rape case in 2006–2007.
Krugman in 2008. Among the Graduate Center's faculty are recipients of the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize, the Lakatos Award, the National Medals of Humanities and Science, the Bancroft Prize, Grammy Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, New York City Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology, the Lakatos Award, and the Presidential ...
Brooklyn College alumnus Barry Feirstein donated $5 million to development, and the school is named in his honor. [3] [7] The school is the first public graduate film school in New York City. [a] [b] The school accepted its first cohort for the 2015-2016 academic year and was officially opened by Mayor Bill de Blasio in October 2015. [8]
Edwin G. "Ted" Burrows (May 15, 1943 [1] – May 4, 2018) was a Distinguished Professor of History at Brooklyn College.He is the co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (1998), and author of Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War, (2008), which won the 2009 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award.
Students occupied his office at the college during a student strike after the Kent State shootings and the Cambodian Campaign in 1970. [2] [13] He terminated classes, but kept campus buildings open for students and faculty. [2] A member of the Brooklyn College Fencing Team introduced streaking to the college in 1974, dashing across the Quad. [2]