Olivier Zunz

Olivier Zunz (born 1946) is a social historian, and Commonwealth Professor at the University of Virginia, known for his work on Twentieth Century history of the American urban society.

Zunz was born and raised in France. He received his BA in geography from the University of Paris in 1968, his PhD from the Pantheon-Sorbonne University in 1977, where in 1982 he also received his Doctor of Letters. He is Commonwealth Professor at the Corcoran Department of History of the University of Virginia since 1978. In 1986 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowships for his exceptional work on US history.

Selected publications

• Zunz, O., Tilly, C., Cohen, D. W., Taylor, W. B., & Rowe, W. T. (1985). Reliving the past: the worlds of social history. UNC Press Books.
• Zunz, Olivier. Making America Corporate, 1870-1920. University of Chicago Press, 1992.
• Zunz, Olivier. Why the American century?. University of Chicago Press, 1998.
• Zunz, Olivier. The Changing Face of Inequality: Urbanization, Industrial Development, and Immigrants in Detroit, 1880-1920. University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Articles, a selection:

• Zunz, Olivier. "The Changing Face of Inequality: Urbanization." Industrial Development, and Immigrants in Detroit 1920 (1880): 1982.
• Zunz, Olivier, John Bodnar, and Stephan Thernstrom. "American History and the Changing Meaning of Assimilation [with Comments and Response]." Journal of American Ethnic History 4.2 (1985): 53-84.
• Barkan, E. R., Vecoli, R. J., Alba, R. D., & Zunz, O. (1995). "Race, Religion, and Nationality in American Society: A Model of Ethnicity: From Contact to Assimilation [with Comment, with Response]." Journal of American Ethnic History, 38-101

External links

• Olivier Zunz, University of Virginia