Jonathan Zimmerman Explained

Discipline:	History of education

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.^[1]

Career

Zimmerman graduated from Columbia College in 1983, where he was the editor-in-chief of Columbia Daily Spectator.^[2] He earned an M.A. in history in 1990, and a Ph.D. in history in 1993, both from Johns Hopkins University.^[3] 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.^[3]

Though being a social liberal, he champions unrestricted freedom of speech for all, including conservatives.^[4]

Works

• Book: Zimmerman . Jonathan . Distilling Democracy: Alcohol Education in America's Public Schools, 1880–1925 . April 20, 1999 . . 978-0700609451.
• Book: Zimmerman . Jonathan . Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools . November 30, 2005 . . 978-0-674-04544-6 . en. ^{[5] [6] [7] [8]}
• Book: Zimmerman. Jonathan. Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century. October 31, 2006. Harvard University Press. 978-0674023611.
• Book: Zimmerman . Jonathan . Too Hot to Handle: A Global History of Sex Education . February 22, 2015 . . 978-0-691-17366-5 . ^{[9] [10]}
• Book: Zimmerman. Jonathan. Campus Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®. September 7, 2016. Oxford University Press. 1st. 978-0190627393.
• Book: Zimmerman. Jonathan. Robertson. Emily. The Case for Contention: Teaching Controversial Issues in American Schools. April 24, 2017. University of Chicago Press. 978-0226456201.
• Book: Zimmerman. Jonathan. The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in America. October 27, 2020. Johns Hopkins University Press. 978-1421439099.
• Book: Zimmerman. Jonathan. Illustrated by Signe Wilkinson. Free Speech: And Why You Should Give a Damn. April 1, 2021. City of Light Publishing. 978-1952536106.
• Book: Zimmerman. Jonathan. Whose America?: Culture Wars in the Public Schools. August 26, 2022. University of Chicago Press. 978-0226820392.

External links

• Jonathan Zimmerman | Washington Monthly
• Jonathan Zimmerman | The New York Review of Books

Notes and References

1. Web site: Jonathan Zimmerman . University of Pennsylvania . 24 February 2020 . en.
2. Web site: 17 January 2020. Take Five with Jonathan Zimmerman '83. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200621033904/https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/latest/take-five/take-five-jonathan-zimmerman-83. June 21, 2020. June 18, 2020. Columbia College Today.
3. Web site: Jonathan Zimmerman | Penn GSE . Gse.upenn.edu . 2021-01-31.
4. News: College students rejecting freedom of speech. Apr 19, 2017. Jonathan Zimmerman. The Philadelphia Inquirer. 2021-01-03.
5. Web site: Carl on Zimmerman, 'Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools' H-Education H-Net .
6. Liss, Athena. "Jonathan Zimmerman Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools." Social Education, vol. 68, no. 3, 2004, p. 238. Gale Academic OneFile.
7. Beadie . Nancy . Review of Whose America: Culture Wars in the Public Schools . Journal of American Ethnic History . 2003 . 22 . 4 . 82–84 . 27501353 . 0278-5927.
8. Conklin . Hilary G. . Review of Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools . Journal of Teacher Education . 25 June 2016 . 55 . 3 . 284–287 . 10.1177/0022487104553008. 144864749 .
9. Blount . Jackie M. . Jonathan Zimmerman. Too Hot to Handle: A Global History of Sex Education. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015. 202 pp. Cloth $29.95. . History of Education Quarterly . 20 January 2017 . 55 . 4 . 523–526 . 10.1111/hoeq.12146. 145494300 .
10. Zervas . Theodore G. . Too Hot to Handle: A Global History of Sex Education . European Education . 28 November 2016 . 48 . 4 . 306–308 . 10.1080/10564934.2016.1248697. 151550130 .