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Dan Amsterdam's research and teaching focus on modern U.S. political history, urban history, and the history of American social and educational policy. He has authored and co-authored scholarship that has appeared in multiple academic journals, including the Journal of American History and the Journal of Urban Affairs. Amsterdam is also the author of the book 'Roaring Metropolis: Businessmen’s Campaign for a Civic Welfare State.' His current projects include a comprehensive intellectual and political history that tracks efforts to curtail and eventually end school desegregation in the United States during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He is a visiting scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has received multiple national fellowships and grants. Additionally, he was awarded the Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award by the student advisory board of Georgia Tech's Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, and he has twice earned the Class of 1940 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award. Amsterdam has served as the graduate and undergraduate director in the School of History and Sociology.
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