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Julia Guarneri is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge, specializing in American history. She joined the faculty in 2015 after serving as an ACLS New Faculty Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh and holding visiting and adjunct professor positions at Colgate University and City College Manhattan. Guarneri completed her PhD at Yale University and her BA at Cornell University. Her book, 'Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers Making Modern Americans,' published by the University of Chicago Press in 2017, explores the significance of daily newspapers within urban contexts, demonstrating their role in shaping the modern American urban landscape. Her work has received multiple accolades, including the 2018 Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize from the American Historical Association, the 2018 Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award, and the 2019 James Carey Media Research Award. Guarneri's current research focuses on the intersections of everyday life and corporate structures within the environmental history of the United States, particularly in relation to domestic spaces and consumer culture. She teaches courses on North American history, cultural history, and consumption. During the academic year 2026-2027, she will not be supervising undergraduate dissertations or MPhil students, as she will be on research leave until April 2027.
University of Cambridge • Cambridge, UK
Teaching American History and supervising research.
University of Pittsburgh • Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Fellowship position focusing on research in American history.
Colgate University • Hamilton, NY, USA
Visiting role in the Department of History.
City College Manhattan • New York, NY, USA
Teaching role in history courses.
Standard postgraduate requirements for Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and related humanities departments.