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Sugrue's newest book is Sweet Land of Liberty: The Unfinished Struggle for Racial Equality in the North (in press at Random House). He is also writing a history of twentieth-century America with Glenda Gilmore of Yale University (under contract with W.W. Norton). In 2009 Sugrue will deliver the Lawrence Stone Lectures in History at Princeton University on religion and the transformation of modern American politics, to be published as a book by Princeton University Press. Sugrue's other books include W.E.B. DuBois, Race, and the City: The Philadelphia Negro and its Legacy(University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998), co-edited with Michael B. Katz and, more recently, The New Suburban History( University of Chicago Press, 2006) with Kevin Kruse. With Michael Kazin and Glenda Gilmore, he is co-editor of the book series Politics and Culture in Modern America, with the University of Pennsylvania Press. He also serves on a number of other editorial boards. Sugrue has also published over 30 articles in such places as the Journal of American History, Journal of Urban History, Labor History, Prospects, International Labor and Working-Class History, American Behavioral Scientist, Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, Michigan Journal of Race and the Law, Budapest Quarterly, and in several edited collections on a wide range of topics including modern American culture and politics, affirmative action, twentieth-century conservatism and liberalism, race, urban economic development, suburbanization, poverty and public policy, and colonial American history. His essays and reviews have also appeared in London Review of Books, The Nation, Dissent, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, and Philadelphia Inquirer. Most recently, Sugrue's essay "Affirmative Action from Below" was published in The Best American History Essays 2006 (Palgrave Macmillan), a collection of ten essays selected from over three hundred learned and popular journals. Sugrue has won fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Fletcher Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the American Philosophical Society, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Kellogg Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council, and has been Research Fellow in Governmental Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. He is also an invited fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. He has been a visiting professor at New York University and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He was recently selected one of the 2007 winners of the Organization of American Historians/Japanese Association of American Studies Residency and will spend part of the summer of 2007 at Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan. Sugrue has also served on the boards of the Urban History Association (UHA), and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (currently as vice chair for the library), has co-chaired the program committee of the Social Science History Association (SSHA) and has served on program and prize committees for the Organization of American Historians, the Policy History Association, UHA, and SSHA. Sugrue is also an award-winning teacher. His courses on America in the 1960s and on U.S. History from 1877-1933 have been selected "Hall of Fame Classes" by the Penn Course Review and he won the 1998 Richard Dunn Teaching Award in the Department of History. He has advised dissertations in history, social welfare, American civilization, sociology, and the history and sociology of science, and has served as an external examiner at Brown and Rutgers. He is a member of the faculty advisory committees for the Urban Studies Program, the Urban Education Program, the Greenfield Intercultural Center , and the Program in Non-Profits, Universities, Communities, and Schools through the Center for Community Partnerships. He is also a faculty associate of the Penn Institute on Urban Research. Outside the classroom, Sugrue combines scholarly research and civic engagement. A longtime resident of Philadelphia, Sugrue is Vice Chair of the Philadelphia Historical Commission, the city agency that handles preservation, planning, and development issues. He is also involved in civil rights and urban policy locally and nationally. He served as an expert for the University of Michigan in the two federal lawsuits concerning affirmative action in its undergraduate and law school admissions, recently decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. More recently, he has worked as an expert in the voting rights case, U.S. v. City of Euclid, Ohio. He also serves as co-chair of the board of directors of the Bread and Roses Community Fund, a foundation that supports grassroots organizations working for racial and economic equality. Sugrue has given more than 150 talks to audiences at colleges and universities throughout the U.S., in Canada, Britain, Germany, and France, and to academic conferences, community groups, foundations, and religious organizations. Since 2002, he has served as an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer. Click here for a recent interview with Professor Sugrue.