Tony Michels
Associate Professor

eMail: aemichels@wisc.edu
Phone: (608)265-2521
Office: 5220 Mosse Humanities
Mailbox: 5041 Mosse Humanities

Curriculum Vitae: View PDF

Office Hours: TBA

Education: PhD: Stanford; MA: Stanford; BA: University of California

Bio Sketch:

My specialization is American Jewish.

My Research and Teaching Interests include American Jewish history, Yiddish culture, Russian Jewish history, socialism, working-class history, and nationalism.

Selected Publications:

• Co-author. “Considering American Jewish History,” OAH Newsletter (Nov. 2007), pp. 9, 18.
• "I Am Not Hippy Johnny: How Jonathan Richman Used His Outsider Status to Revolutionize Rock and Roll," /Guilt and Pleasure/ no. 6 (Fall 2007):  82-87.
• A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York (Harvard University Press, 2005).
• "Socialism and the Writing of American Jewish History: World of Our Fathers Revisited" American Jewish History vol. 88, no. 4 (December, 2000): pp. 521-546.
• "Speaking to 'Moyshe': The Early Socialist Yiddish Press and its Readers," Jewish History vol., 14, no. 1 (2000): pp. 51-82.
  

Awards:

• Salo W. Baron Prize from the American Academy for Jewish Research (2006)
• Finalist for the Weinberg Judaic Studies Institute Book Award (2007)
• Finalist for the Saul Viener Book Prize, American Jewish Historical Society (2007).

Courses Taught:

Lecture Courses:

• History 219 - American Jewish Experience - Syllabus 2008 (pdf)
• History 416 - Eastern European Jews in the United States, 1880s-1930s - Syllabus 2009 (pdf)

Undergraduate Seminars:

• History 200 - Historical Studies
• History 600 - Advanced Seminar in History - Topics: "African Americans and Jews in Urban US"; "Black and Jews in Urban America"

Graduate Courses:

• History 901 - Studies in American History - Topics: "American Jewish History"
• History 902 - Research Seminar in American History