Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University
About
Ira Katznelson has been Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University since 1994, and, since 2012, president of the Social Science Research Council. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and
the American Philosophical Society, his most recent book, Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time, awarded the Bancroft Prize, focuses on the role of race in American political development.