About Nick Salvatore
Nick Salvatore is the Maurice and Hinda Neufeld Founders Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Professor of American Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist (1982), which received the Bancroft Prize in History and the John H. Dunning Prize, and We All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webber (1996), which received the New England History Association's Outstanding Book Prize. Singing in a Strange Land: Rev. C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America is his third biography. He has also edited a number of books, most recently Faith and the Historian: Catholic Perspectives. He has twice received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and was a Senior Fellow in Residence at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion at Yale University.
Salvatore was born in Brooklyn, New York. After high school he worked as a trucker's helper in New York and was an active member of his Teamsters' local. He then attended Hunter College in the Bronx (now Lehman College), a division of the City University of New York, and received his B. A. in history in 1968. His M.A. and Ph. D. degrees, also in history, he received from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied with Leon F. Litwack. He has taught American history at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA and, since 1981, at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University; from 1997, he has held a joint appointment in American Studies at Cornell as well. Besides history, Nick enjoys long walks, music, and conversation. He has two daughters, Gabriella and Nora, and a grandson, Joseph. He and his wife, Ann Sullivan, live in Ithaca, New York.