Filmmakers

Daniel Walkowitz is Emeritus Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and Emeritus Professor of History at New York University who in nearly a dozen books, many articles and four films for public television has worked to bring America’s past to both academic and broad public audiences.  A social and cultural historian of the modern world, among his books are Worker City, Company Town: Iron and Cotton Worker Protest in Troy and Cohoes, New York, 1855-1884 (Illinois, 1978); with Lewis Siegelbaum, Workers of the Donbass Speak: Survival and Identity in the New Ukraine, 1989-1994 (SUNY, Albany, 1994); Working With Class: Social Workers and the Politics of Middle-Class Identity (North Carolina, 1999), and, co-edited with Lisa Maya Knauer, Memory and the Impact of Political Transformation in Public Spaces (Duke, 2004) and Contested Histories in Public Space: Memory, Race, and Nation (Duke, 2009). In 2010 he published, City Folk: English Country Dance and the Politics of the Folk in Modern America (NYU Press), which serves as the companion to the film, City Folk: Pinewoods Camp and the Story of English Country Dance in America (Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, 2016), which he produced with Charlie Weber and Stephanie Smith.  In 2018 he published an edited collection The Culture of Work in the Modern Era (Bloomsbury, 2018), and a book on the politics of heritage tourism, The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World: Jewish Heritage Tourism in Europe and the United States (Rutgers University Press).