Jonathan Zimmerman
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}}Jonathan Zimmerman is an American historian of education who is a professor of history of education at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.{{cite web |title=Jonathan Zimmerman |url=https://www.gse.upenn.edu/academics/faculty-directory/zimmerman |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=24 February 2020 |language=en}}
Career
Zimmerman graduated from Columbia College in 1983, where he was the editor-in-chief of Columbia Daily Spectator.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=17 January 2020|title=Take Five with Jonathan Zimmerman '83|url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/latest/take-five/take-five-jonathan-zimmerman-83|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621033904/https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/latest/take-five/take-five-jonathan-zimmerman-83|archive-date=June 21, 2020|access-date=June 18, 2020|website=Columbia College Today}} He earned an M.A. in history in 1990, and a Ph.D. in history in 1993, both from Johns Hopkins University.{{cite web|url=https://www.gse.upenn.edu/academics/faculty-directory/zimmerman |title=Jonathan Zimmerman | Penn GSE |publisher=Gse.upenn.edu |date= |access-date=2021-01-31}} He taught for 20 years at New York University, where he was chair of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
Though being a social liberal, he champions unrestricted freedom of speech for all, including conservatives.{{cite news|title=College students rejecting freedom of speech|url=http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/commentary/20170419_College_students_rejecting_freedom_of_speech.html|date=Apr 19, 2017|author=Jonathan Zimmerman|website=The Philadelphia Inquirer|access-date=2021-01-03}}
Works
- {{cite book |last1=Zimmerman |first1=Jonathan |title=Distilling Democracy: Alcohol Education in America's Public Schools, 1880–1925 |date=April 20, 1999 |publisher=University Press of Kansas |isbn=978-0700609451}}
- {{cite book |last1=Zimmerman |first1=Jonathan |title=Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools |date=November 30, 2005 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-04544-6 |language=en}}{{cite web|title=Carl on Zimmerman, 'Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools' {{!}} H-Education {{!}} H-Net |url=https://networks.h-net.org/node/14281/reviews/16132/carl-zimmerman-whose-america-culture-wars-public-schools}}Liss, Athena. "Jonathan Zimmerman Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools." Social Education, vol. 68, no. 3, 2004, p. 238. Gale Academic OneFile.{{cite journal |last1=Beadie |first1=Nancy |title=Review of Whose America: Culture Wars in the Public Schools |journal=Journal of American Ethnic History |date=2003 |volume=22 |issue=4 |pages=82–84 |jstor=27501353 |issn=0278-5927}}{{cite journal |last1=Conklin |first1=Hilary G. |title=Review of Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools |journal=Journal of Teacher Education |date=25 June 2016 |volume=55 |issue=3 |pages=284–287 |doi=10.1177/0022487104553008|s2cid=144864749 }}
- {{cite book|last1=Zimmerman|first1=Jonathan|title=Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century|date=October 31, 2006|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0674023611}}
- {{cite book |last1=Zimmerman |first1=Jonathan |title=Too Hot to Handle: A Global History of Sex Education |date=February 22, 2015 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-17366-5 }}{{cite journal |last1=Blount |first1=Jackie M. |title=Jonathan Zimmerman. Too Hot to Handle: A Global History of Sex Education. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015. 202 pp. Cloth $29.95. |journal=History of Education Quarterly |date=20 January 2017 |volume=55 |issue=4 |pages=523–526 |doi=10.1111/hoeq.12146|s2cid=145494300 }}{{cite journal |last1=Zervas |first1=Theodore G. |title=Too Hot to Handle: A Global History of Sex Education |journal=European Education |date=28 November 2016 |volume=48 |issue=4 |pages=306–308 |doi=10.1080/10564934.2016.1248697|s2cid=151550130 }}
- {{cite book|last1=Zimmerman|first1=Jonathan|title=Campus Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®|date=September 7, 2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=1st|isbn=978-0190627393}}
- {{cite book|last1=Zimmerman|first1=Jonathan|last2=Robertson|first2=Emily|title=The Case for Contention: Teaching Controversial Issues in American Schools|date=April 24, 2017|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0226456201}}
- {{cite book|last1=Zimmerman|first1=Jonathan|title=The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in America|date=October 27, 2020|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|isbn=978-1421439099}}
- {{cite book|last1=Zimmerman|first1=Jonathan|others=Illustrated by Signe Wilkinson|title=Free Speech: And Why You Should Give a Damn|date=April 1, 2021|publisher=City of Light Publishing|isbn=978-1952536106}}
- {{cite book|last1=Zimmerman|first1=Jonathan|title=Whose America?: Culture Wars in the Public Schools|date=August 26, 2022|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0226820392}}
References
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External links
- [https://washingtonmonthly.com/people/jonathan-zimmerman/ Jonathan Zimmerman | Washington Monthly]
- [https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/jonathan-zimmerman/ Jonathan Zimmerman | The New York Review of Books]
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