Daniel J Walkowitz

Biographic Data

ID1075356
NAMEDaniel J Walkowitz
GIVEN NAMESDaniel J
FAMILY NAMEWalkowitz
SIGNATUREWALKOWITZ D J
AFFILIATIONSNew York University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS57
TOTAL CITATIONS86
AUTHOR COUNT56
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1972
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX4

  • History Workshop Around the World

    Open AccessDaniel J Walkowitz, Judith R WalkowitzARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2025

    This essay recalls London friendships with History Workshop members over 50 years. It also assesses HWJ's impact on radical, feminist, and public history in the United States

  • Memory over Forgetting

    Bonita Bennett, Bonny Ibhawoh et al.ARTICLERadical History Review2025References: 12

    The Black Lives Matter social movement in the United States reverberated worldwide and spurred renewed attention by antiracist activists to memorials-and by counterprotestors who supported the memorials. These "memorial wars" built on a half century of emergent community activism and a legacy of a triumphalist tradition of war monuments and celebrations of typically male political leaders. In the revolutionary struggles of 1989 to 1992, correspon…

  • Ellis Island Immigration Museum

    Daniel J WalkowitzARTICLEThe Public Historian2023

    On May 1, 2012, the Organization of American Historians (OAH) report Imperiled Promise: The State of History in the National Park Service urged the National Park Service (NPS) “to recommit to history,” bemoaning its inadequate treatment at park historical sites. Focusing on the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration (part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument), this review essay considers how much has changed at one site in response to …

  • Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians

    Daniel J Walkowitz, Pierre Clastres et al.BOOKChronicle of the Guayaki Indians2021Cited by: 8

    Pierre Clastres's Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians is a landmark study of a nomadic hunter-gatherer society in the Paraguayan rainforest. Based on extensive fieldwork conducted in the 1960s, Clastres offers a detailed and intimate portrait of the Aché people, exploring their social organization, kinship structures, cosmology, rituals, and relationship with the natural world. The book challenges conventional anthropological assumptions about primi…

  • Denise D. Meringolo. Museums, Monuments, and National Parks

    Daniel J WalkowitzARTICLEThe American Historical Review2013

    In this tidy book Denise D. Meringolo provides an engaging and readable history of the National Park Service and, to a lesser extent, the Smithsonian Institution, from early in the nineteenth century through the New Deal era. While Meringolo's principle focus is on the origin and place of historians and historical work in the agencies, she sees their story as engaging in a broader debate about the origins of public history and many of its contemp…

  • From Slavery to Poverty

    Daniel J WalkowitzARTICLEJournal of American Ethnic History2012

    Book Review| January 01 2012 From Slavery to Poverty: The Racial Origins of Welfare in New York, 1840–1918 From Slavery to Poverty: The Racial Origins of Welfare in New York, 1840–1918. By Gunja SenGupta. New York: New York University Press, 2009. xiv + 335 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $48 (cloth). Daniel J. Walkowitz Daniel J. Walkowitz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2012) 31 (2): …

  • Contested Histories in Public Space

    Open AccessDaniel J Walkowitz, Daniel Walkowitz et al.BOOKContested Histories in Public Space2009

    Contested Histories in Public Space brings multiple perspectives to bear on historical narratives presented to the public in museums, monuments, texts, and festivals around the world, from Paris to Kathmandu, from the Mexican state of Oaxaca to the waterfront of Wellington, New Zealand. Paying particular attention to how race and empire are implicated in the creation and display of national narratives, the contributing historians, anthropologists…

  • Finding the Movement

    Daniel J Walkowitz, A Finn Enke et al.BOOKFinding the Movement2007

    Someone or Something Made That a Women's Bar: Claiming the Nighttime Marketplace 25 2. Don't Steal It, Read It Here: Building Community in the Marketplace 62 Part 2: Public Assertion and Civic Space 3. Kind of Like Mecca: Playgrounds, Players, and Women's Movement 105 4. Out in Left Field: Feminist Movement and Civic Athletic Space 145 Part 3: Politicizing Place and Feminist Institutions 5. Finding the Limit of Women's Autonomy: Shelters, Health …

  • Femininity in Flight

    Daniel J Walkowitz, Kathleen BarryBOOKFemininity in Flight2007

  • Imagining Our Americas

    Daniel J Walkowitz, Sandhya Rajendra Shukla et al.BOOKImagining Our Americas2007

    This rich interdisciplinary collection of essays advocates and models a hemispheric approach to the study of the Americas. Taken together, the essays examine North and South America, the Caribbean, and the Pacific as a broad region transcending both national boundaries and the dichotomy between North and South. In the volume’s substantial introduction, the editors, an anthropologist and a historian, explain the need to move beyond the paradigm of…

  • Grand Designs

    Lara Kriegel, Daniel J WalkowitzBOOKGrand Designs2007Cited by: 10

    With this richly illustrated history of industrial design reform in nineteenth-century Britain, Lara Kriegel demonstrates that preoccupations with trade, labor, and manufacture lay at the heart of debates about cultural institutions during the Victorian era. Through aesthetic reform, Victorians sought to redress the inferiority of British crafts in comparison to those made on the continent and in the colonies. Declaring a crisis of design and wor…

  • Specters of Mother India

    Daniel J Walkowitz, Mrinalini SinhaBOOKSpecters of Mother India2006

  • Folk Dance and the Renovation of Class in Social History

    Daniel J WalkowitzARTICLEJournal of Social History2006Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Folk Dance and the Renovation of Class in Social History Get access Daniel J. Walkowitz Daniel J. Walkowitz Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University, 41 East 11th Street, 7th floor, New York, NY 10003 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 39, Issue 3, Spring 2006, Pages 781–802, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2006.0022 Published: 01 March 2006

  • Voices of a People's History of the United States

    Daniel Walkowitz, Daniel J WalkowitzARTICLETeachers College Record The Voice…2005

  • Bodily Matters

    Open AccessDaniel J Walkowitz, Nadja DurbachBOOKBodily Matters2005

  • Courage Tastes of Blood

    Daniel J Walkowitz, Florencia E MallonBOOKCourage Tastes of Blood2005

    Until now, very little about the recent history of the Mapuche, Chile's largest indigenous group, has been available to English-language readers. Courage Tastes of Blood helps to rectify this situation. It tells the story of one Mapuche community-Nicolás Ailío, located in the south of the country-across the entire twentieth century, from its founding in the resettlement process that followed the military defeat of the Mapuche by the Chilean state…

  • The Origins of the Southern Middle Class, 1800-1861

    Daniel J Walkowitz, Jonathan Daniel WellsARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2005

    With a fresh take on social dynamics in the antebellum South, Jonathan Daniel Wells contests the popular idea that the Old South was a region of essentially two classes (planters and slaves) until after the Civil War. He argues that, in fact, the region had a burgeoning white middle class - including merchants, doctors, and teachers - that had a profound impact on southern culture, the debate over slavery, and the coming of the Civil War. Wells s…

  • Women with(out) class

    Daniel Walkowitz, Daniel J WalkowitzARTICLEWomen s History Review2005Cited by: 1

    This article examines women's work culture in professional-managerial labor in the twentieth-century United States through a history of social workers, an occupation particularly well suited to examine how race and gender shape work cultures. It suggests a chronology for understanding the changing ways in which social workers adopted middle-class identities that draw upon both professionalism and unionism. Imaging themselves variously as workers …

  • Memory and the Impact of Political Transformation in Public Space

    Daniel J Walkowitz, Daniel Walkowitz et al.BOOKMemory and the Impact of…2004

    History and memory have become highly contentious public issues in recent years, and political events place these struggles over historical interpretations in high relief.As we assembled the manuscript for this book, the World Trade Center was attacked.As a monument, the World Trade Center lent itself to markedly di√erent readings in its life and death.Some saw the towers as arrogant and vulgar representations of capitalist greed and insolence.Ar…

  • The Gangs of New York

    Daniel J WalkowitzARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2003

    First a confession: I’m a sucker both for costume drama and a good romance. And I love a good adventure story. Loved ‘Pride and Prejudice’; when Mr Darcy finally professes his love to Miss Elizabeth Bennett, I get tearful. Adore almost any Merchant and Ivory film. And I can handle violence, whether the cartoonish sort of ‘Batman ’ and ‘Pulp Fiction ’ or the realism of ‘Saving Private Ryan’. So, ‘Gangs of New York ’ should have been right up my al…

  • The Middling Sorts

    Daniel J Walkowitz, Burton J Bledstein et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2002Cited by: 8

    Building on the idea that cultural formations as well as economic conditions “make” class, this volume's essays focus less on occupations than on the material world of consumption, cultural institutions, and leisure time. The introduction by the co-editor Burton J. Bledstein and finely textured essays by two senior scholars—Joyce Appleby and Bruce Laurie— set the stage for the history of middle-class formation in the early nineteenth century. But…

  • Cultures of Darkness

    Daniel J Walkowitz, Bryan D PalmerARTICLELabour / Le Travail2002Cited by: 3

  • Working with Class

    Tai-Lok Lui, Daniel J WalkowitzARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2001

  • Tales of Wayward Girls and Immoral Women

    Daniel J Walkowitz, Karen W TiceARTICLEJournal of American History2000Cited by: 4

    Journal Article Tales of Wayward Girls and Immoral Women: Case Records and the Professionalization of Social Work. By Karen W. Tice. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. x, 260 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-252-02397-8. Paper, $26.95, ISBN 0-252-06698-7.) Get access Daniel J. Walkowitz Daniel J. Walkowitz New York University, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Histor…

  • Working with class

    Daniel J WalkowitzBOOKWorking with class1999Cited by: 33