Nathan Glazer

Nathan Glazer was an American sociologist known for his writings on ethnicity and race and urban problems, such as Beyond the Melting Pot, co-authored with Daniel Patrick Moynihan, on the ethnic groups of New York City (1963, 1970). Among his other books are American Judaism (1957), The Social Basis of American Communism (1961), Affirmative Discrimination (1976), The Limits of Social Policy (1989), We Are All Multiculturalists Now (1997), and From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City (2007). He was Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley from 1963-69 and Professor of Education and Sociology at Harvard University from 1969-93. A member of the staff of Commentary Magazine from 1944-53, he was a Contributing Editor at The New Republic and was co-editor of the journal The Public Interest from 1973 to 2004. Glazer received the B.S. degree (1944) from City College of New York, the A.M. degree (1944) in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania, and the Ph.D. (1962) in sociology from Columbia University. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1969. Glazer served as a member of the Visiting Scholars Advisory Committee, the Strategic Planning-Publications and Publicity group, and the Class III:1 membership panel.