Steven Conn
Education
- PhD University of Pennsylvania
- BA Yale University
Teaching and Research Interests
- American cultural and intellectual history
- Public history
- Urban history
Courses Taught
- HST 369 U.S. in the Modern Era
- HST 670N Graduate Colloquium in Modern U.S. History
Selected Publications
- Co-Editor, Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective (online magazine)
- Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: The Sad History of American Business Schools (Cornell University Press, 2019)
- Americans Against the City: Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century, Oxford University Press, 2014
- Editor, To Promote the General Welfare: The Case for Big Government, Oxford University Press, 2012
- "Back to the Garden: Communes, the Environment and Anti-Urban Pastoralism at the End of the Sixties," Journal of Urban History, November 2010
- Do Museums Still Need Objects? University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010
- Metropolitan Philadelphia: Living in the Presence of the Past, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006