{"id":4,"date":"2008-07-30T07:32:11","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T12:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/74.54.168.234\/~jimsleep\/?p=4"},"modified":"2008-07-30T07:32:11","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T12:32:11","slug":"jim-sleeper-biographical-sketch-and-cv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimsleeper.com\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"Jim Sleeper, Biographical Sketch and CV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jim Sleeper, a writer and teacher on American civic culture and politics and a lecturer in political science at Yale, is the author of The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York <\/em>(W.W. Norton, 1990) and Liberal Racism <\/em>(Viking, 1997, Rowman & Littlefield, 2002). His reportage and commentary have appeared in Harper’s, The New Republic, The Nation, The New Yorker, The Washington Monthly, Dissent, <\/em>and many other publications. He has appeared several times each on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, the Charlie Rose show, and National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation” and has been an occasional commentator on NPR’s “All Things Considered.”<\/p>\n

As the New York City political columnist for the New York Daily News <\/em>for three years during and after the pivotal 1993 mayoral campaign in which Rudolph Giuliani defeated the city’s first African-American mayor, David Dinkins, Sleeper anticipated and interpreted Giuliani’s victory in a widely noted series of columns on the city\u2019s changing political culture, written across the eight months of the campaign. He had served earlier on the editorial board of New York Newsday <\/em>(1988-1993) and was deputy-editor of its opinion section.<\/p>\n

Sleeper is a member of the editorial board of Dissent, <\/em>for which he edited In Search of New York <\/em>(1987), a special edition re-published by Transaction Books, containing original essays by the quarterly\u2019s founding editor, Irving Howe, as well as by Ada Louise Huxtable, Michael Harrington, Alfred Kazin, and many other distinguished contributors.<\/p>\n

A Longmeadow, Massachusetts native and Yale College graduate (1969), Sleeper holds a doctorate in education from Harvard (1977). In the 1970s and ’80s, he taught urban studies and writing at Harvard and Queens Colleges and at New York University. In 1982-83 he was a Charles Revson Fellow at Columbia University, studying urban housing development. In 1998 he was a fellow at the Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.<\/p>\n

At Yale Sleeper has taught seminars on new conceptions of American national identity and on journalism, liberalism, and democracy.<\/p>\n

Books<\/strong><\/p>\n

Liberal Racism <\/em>(Rowman & Littlefield, 2002) (First edition published by
\nViking\/Penguin, 1997 and 1998).
\nThe Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York <\/em>
\n(W. W. Norton & Co.), 1990; paperback (Norton), 1991.
\nIn Search of New York <\/em>(Transaction Books), 1988. Editor. An anthology of
\nreportage, essays, reminiscences, and photography.
\nThe New Jews <\/em>(Vintage paperback), 1971. Co-editor; essays by young religious
\nradicals of the time.<\/p>\n

Chapters in Anthologies<\/strong><\/p>\n

Orwell Into the Twenty-First Century, <\/em>Thomas Cushman and John Rodden, eds.
\n(Paradigm Press, 2005). Chapter: \u201cOrwell\u2019s Smelly Little Orthodoxies \u2013 and
\nOurs\u201d<\/p>\n

A Way Out, <\/em>Owen Fiss, Joshua Cohen eds. (Princeton U. Press, 2003); Essay,
\n\u201cAgainst Social Engineering,\u201d a response to an \u201curban removal\u201d manifesto by
\nYale Law Professor. Owen Fiss.<\/p>\n

One America?, <\/em>Stanley Renshon, ed. (Georgetown U. Press, 2001). Essay:
\n\u201cAmerican National Identity in a Post-national Age.\u201d<\/p>\n

Empire City: New York Through the Centuries, <\/em>Kenneth Jackson and David
\nDunbar, eds. (Columbia U. Press, October, 2002). Chapter: \u201cBoodling,
\nBigotry, and Cosmopolitanism,\u201d about New York City in the late 1980s.<\/p>\n

Post-Mortem: The O.J. Verdict. <\/em>Jeffrey Abramson, editor (Basic Books, 1996).
\nEssay, \u201cRacial Theater,\u201d about the public staging of the O.J. trial.<\/p>\n

The New Republic Guide to the Candidates, <\/em>1996. Andrew Sullivan, editor
\n(Basic Books, 1996). Essay on Bill Bradley, the non-candidate, and his
\nconcerns about civil society.<\/p>\n

Blacks and Jews: Alliances and Arguments, <\/em>Paul Berman, editor (Delacorte,
\n1995). Chapter: \u201cThe Battle for Enlightenment at City College,\u201d on CUNY
\nProf. Leonard Jeffries and identity politics.<\/p>\n

Debating Affirmative Action. <\/em>Nicolaus Mills, editor. (Dell, 1994). Essay,
\n\u201cAffirmative Action\u2019s Outer Limits.”<\/p>\n

Tikkun Anthology, <\/em>Michael Lerner, editor, 1992. Essay, “Demagoguery in
\nAmerica: Wrong Turns in the Politics of Race.” (One of the early, classic
\ncritiques of identity politics in the American left.)<\/p>\n

Teaching
\n(Adjunct and Lecturer only)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Harvard College, Expository Writing, 1975-76 (two one-semester courses)<\/p>\n

Northeastern University, Sociology of American Literature, 1976 (one semester)<\/p>\n

Queens College, Expository Writing, 1977-78 (two one-semester courses)<\/p>\n

New York University, Metropolitan Studies Program, “Cities in Transition,” fall, 1985, and “Urban Housing,” spring, 1986<\/p>\n

The Cooper Union, Humanities Department, “Race and Civil Society,” 1993<\/p>\n

Yale College, Residential College Seminar, “New Conceptions of American National Identity,” fall, 1999.<\/p>\n

Yale College, lecturer, Political Science Department, \u201cJournalism, Liberalism, and Democracy,\u201d spring, 2001, fall, 2002; \u201cNew Conceptions of American National Identity,\u201d spring 2003, spring 2004, fall, 2004, spring 2006<\/p>\n

(Yale student course evaluations, 2003 and 2004, below)<\/p>\n

Journalism<\/strong><\/p>\n

Essayist, book reviewer, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post<\/em>
\nNational Public Radio, 1997-present. Occasional commentator, “All Things Considered.”
\nNew York Daily News, <\/em>1993-96. Political columnist, op-ed page, twice a week;
\ncovered city government and politics, race relations.
\nWCBS-TV “Sunday Edition”, New York “Reporters\u2019
\nRoundtable,\u201d regular panelist, 1994-1995
\nNew York Newsday, <\/em>1988-93. Editorial board member; deputy editor, op-ed pg.
\nNew York Observer, <\/em>1987-88. Columnist, op-ed page, city affairs.
\nDissent<\/em>, editorial board.
\nVillage Voice, Prospect Press, City Limits, <\/em>1982-87. Freelance writer, columnist.
\nNorth Brooklyn Mercury,<\/em> 1978-79. Editor and publisher of a weekly newspaper serving predominantly non-white neighborhoods of Williamsburg, Bushwick, and Fort Greene.<\/p>\n

Government<\/strong><\/p>\n

New York City Council President Carol Bellamy, 1979-82. Speechwriter.
\nU.S. Rep. Silvio Conte (R-MA), 1968. undergraduate intern, Capitol Hill office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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