Jerald Podair Professor of History and Robert S. French Professor of American Studies at Lawrence University
Podair is author of The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis and Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer. Podair received an M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University. He also holds a J.D. from Columbia University. In 1998, Podair won the Allan Nevins Prize, awarded by the Society of American Historians.
