Thomas Sugrue

Thomas J. Sugrue
Born	1962 Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Alma mater	Columbia University University of Cambridge Harvard University (PhD)
Awards	Bancroft Prize (1998)
Scientific career
Institutions	University of Pennsylvania (1991-2015) New York University (2015-)[1]

Thomas J. Sugrue (born 1962) is an American historian of the 20th-century United States currently serving as a professor at New York University.^[2] From 1991 to 2015, he was the David Boies Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania^[3] and founding director of the Penn Social Science and Policy Forum.^[4] His areas of expertise include American urban history, American political history, housing and the history of race relations. He has published extensively on the history of liberalism and conservatism, on housing and real estate, on poverty and public policy, on civil rights, and on the history of affirmative action.