Academic
Stephen Steinberg, a sociologist, is an internationally renowned
authority on race and ethnicity in the United States. His most recent book is Race Relations: A Critique (Stanford University Press, September 2007). His last book, Turning
Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy (Beacon
Press, 1995), was included in Choice Magazine’s 1996 list of Outstanding
Academic Books, and received the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished
Anti-Racist Scholarship. His previous work, The Ethnic Myth, is widely
recognized as one of the leading critical interpretations of race, ethnicity,
and class in America. Other books include The Academic Melting Pot and The
Tenacity of Prejudice.
Steinberg teaches courses on Racial and Ethnic Groups in Urban America and Race,
Ethnicity, and Public Policy. He also teaches the required graduate and
undergraduate course on Urban Research Methods, an innovative course that
emphasizes the development of critical skills in reading and interpreting social
science research... His interest in improving the quality of student research
and writing is reflected in a book that he co-authored with Sharon Friedman, Writing
and Thinking in the Social Sciences (Prentice-Hall, 1989).
Steinberg is the Urban Studies Undergraduate Advisor.
