Suleiman Osman
Suleiman Osman
Associate Professor of American Studies
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Suleiman Osman is Associate Professor of American Studies at George Washington University, who specializes in the study of cities. His book, The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn, was awarded the Hornblower Prize from the New York Society Library. He has received grants and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Graham Foundation and was most recently the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. His articles and criticism have appeared in the Journal of Urban History, the Journal of Planning History, Society and Space, and City & Community.
Urban, race, ethnicity, US cultural, political and cultural history
Prof. Osman is currently teaching courses on race and ethnicity in the American metropolis, American cityscapes, Scope and Methods in American Studies, a course on the 1960s, and several research seminars in urban history.
The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
“The Decade of the Neighborhood.” In Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s, edited by Julian Zelizer and Bruce Schulman, 106-127. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008.
PhD, Harvard U., 2006
Prof. Osman did his doctoral work in the American Civilization Program at Harvard University. He also has a BA in history from Yale College.