Noam Chomsky is the Institute Professor and a professor of
linguistics, emeritus, at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. A world-renowned linguist and political activist, he is
the author of numerous books, including On Language: Chomsky’s
Classic Works Language and Responsibility and Reflections on
Language; Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky, edited by
Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel; American Power and the New
Mandarins; For Reasons of State; Problems of Knowledge and Freedom;
Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship; Towards a New Cold War: U.S.
Foreign Policy from Vietnam to Reagan; The Essential Chomsky,
edited by Anthony Arnove; and On Anarchism, and a co-author (with
Ira Katznelson, R.C. Lewontin, David Montgomery, Laura Nader,
Richard Ohmann, Ray Siever, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Howard Zinn)
of The Cold War and the University: Toward an Intellectual History
of the Postwar Years and (with Michel Foucault) of The
Chomsky-Foucault Debate, all published by The New Press. He lives
in Lexington, Massachusetts.
Ira Katznelson is a professor of political science at Columbia
University. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and is a fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American
Philosophical Society. He is a co-author (with Noam Chomsky, R.C.
Lewontin, David Montgomery, Laura Nader, Richard Ohmann, Ray
Siever, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Howard Zinn) of The Cold War and
the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years
(The New Press).
R.C. Lewontin is an evolutionary biologist, a geneticist, and a
social commentator. He is professor biology, emeritus, and
Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, emeritus, at Harvard
University. He is a co-author (with Noam Chomsky, Ira Katznelson,
David Montgomery, Laura Nader, Richard Ohmann, Ray Siever, Immanuel
Wallerstein, and Howard Zinn) of The Cold War and the University:
Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years (The New
Press).
David Montgomery (1927 – 2011) was Farnum Professor Emeritus of
History at Yale University. He was one of the founders of “New
Labor History” in the United States. He is a co-author (with Noam
Chomsky, Ira Katznelson, R.C. Lewontin, Laura Nader, Richard
Ohmann, Ray Siever, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Howard Zinn) of The
Cold War and the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the
Postwar Years (The New Press).
Laura Nader is a professor of anthropology at the University of
California, Berkeley. She is a co-author (with Noam Chomsky, Ira
Katznelson, R.C. Lewontin, David Montgomery, Richard Ohmann, Ray
Siever, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Howard Zinn) of The Cold War and
the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years
(The New Press).
Richard Ohmann is the Benjamin Waite Professor of English,
Emeritus, at Wesleyan University. He is a co-author (with Noam
Chomsky, Ira Katznelson, R.C. Lewontin, David Montgomery, Laura
Nader, Ray Siever, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Howard Zinn) of The
Cold War and the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the
Postwar Years (The New Press).
Immanuel Wallerstein is a senior research scholar in the department
of sociology at Yale University and director emeritus of the
Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton University. He is also a
resident researcher at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris.
His many books include The Modern World-System and Historical
Capitalism. The New Press has published After Liberalism, The
Decline of American Power, and a collection of his works, The
Essential Wallerstein. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut, and
Paris, France.
Howard Zinn (1922–2010) was a historian, a playwright, and an
activist. He wrote the classic A People’s History of the United
States and is a co-author (with Noam Chomsky, Ira Katznelson, R.C.
Lewontin, David Montgomery, Laura Nader, Richard Ohmann, Ray
Siever, and Immanuel Wallerstein) of The Cold War and the
University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years
(The New Press). He received the Lannan Foundation Literary Award
for Nonfiction and the Eugene V. Debs Award for his writing and
political activism.
"A wonderful series of essays examining the effects of the Cold War
on various university departments and the personal lives of the
contributors." —Village Voice
"Engrossing . . . The Cold War and the University adds new
dimensions to the history of Cold War repression." —The Nation
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