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Professor Norwood is the author of a number of books,
including Strikebreaking and Intimidation:
Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century
America, Labor’s Flaming Youth: Telephone Operators
and Worker Militancy, 1878-1923, which won the
Herbert G. Gutman Award in American Social History,
and Real Football: Conversations on America’s
Game. He is editor (with Professor Eunice Pollack)
of the new, two-volume Encyclopedia of American
Jewish History, which won a Booklist Editors’
Choice Award and a starred review. His most recent book, The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses, was published by Cambridge University Press (2009). Portions of two chapters appeared as journal articles. His conference papers on his findings received extensive coverage in the world press, as far away as Turkey, India, Israel, New
Zealand, and Malta, as well as in American metropolitan
dailies. It was also featured on CBS Television News
in New York City and covered on CNN. Professor Norwood
has published extensively in eight distinct fields of
study: twentieth century American social history, working-class
history, women’s history, men and masculinity,
Jewish history, sport history, African-American history,
and the history of education. His articles have appeared in The Journal of Social History, American Jewish History, Modern Judaism, Journal of Southern History, Labor History, New England Quarterly, Journal of Women's History, Journal of Sport History, Labor's Heritage. One of them received
the Macmillan/SABR Award in baseball history. In addition
to several courses in twentieth-century American history,
he teaches the history of antisemitism from Pharaoh
to Farrakhan, the history of sport, and several courses
on the history of the American working class. Professor
Norwood is a member of the Academic Council of the David
S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies. He received
his Ph.D from Columbia University.
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