Daniel J. Walkowitz

Daniel J. Walkowitz is an social and cultural historian who specializes in labor and urban history. A professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and of History at New York University, he is the author and editor of nearly a dozen books, notably, Working With Class (North Carolina, 1999) and Worker City, Company Town (Illinois, 1978), and he has produced film versions of several of them for public television. He is presently at work on a documentary based on his latest book, City Folk, (NYU Press, 2010), which he is co-producing with folklorists from the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, and which they hope will appear in 2011. A folk dancer himself for nearly half a century, his recent work combines participant observation with video oral histories and archival research.

Daniel lives in New York with his wife, Judith, who is also a historian and their two Maine Coon cats, Josephine and Bellamy. They have a daughter Rebecca who teaches at Rutgers and a granddaughter, Lucy.