Elliott J. Gorn Biography

Elliott J. Gorn (Ph.D. Yale University 1983 A.B. University of California Berkeley 1973) is the Joseph Gagliano Professor of American Urban History and has a distinguished record of scholarship publication and excellence in teaching and student mentorship. His books and articles embrace multiple aspects of urban and American culture particularly the history of various social groups in American cities since 1800. Gorn’s work is interdisciplinary and intersects with numerous other fields. His five major books examine various aspects of urban life and city cultures in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States including Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till Dillinger’s Wild Ride: The Year That Made America’s Public Enemy Number One; Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America; A Brief History of American Sports co-authored with Warren Goldstein; and The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America.
Gorn has edited eight volumes including Sports in Chicago; The McGuffey Readers: Selections from the 1879 Edition with an introduction; Muhammad Ali The Peoples' Champ; and The Encyclopedia of American Social History 3 volumes which was awarded the Dartmouth Certificate by the American Library Association. He has published and reprinted more than 50 articles book chapters and reviews in a wide variety of scholarly journals encyclopedias edited collections and news magazines including the American Historical Review the Journal of American History the Journal of American Studies the Journal of Urban History the Journal of Sport History American Quarterly the International Journal of Maritime History Harper’s Magazine the Chronicle of Higher Education Mother Jones Boom: A Journal of California Le Monde Diplomatique Dissent On-Line Slate The Wall Street Journal and the Chicago Tribune.

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