Ian Reifowitz is the author of the book Obama’s America: A Transformative Vision of Our National Identity, to be published in July by Potomac Books. He teaches history at Empire State College of the State University of New York, and in 2009 received the College’s Susan H. Turben Award for Scholarly Excellence. His articles on American politics have appeared in Newsday, The New Republic, The Post-Star, and elsewhere. His first book, Imagining an Austrian Nation: Joseph Samuel Bloch and the Search for a Multiethnic Austrian Identity, 1846–1919, was published by East European Monographs and distributed by Columbia University Press. He has also published academic articles on national identity in the Journal of Jewish Identities, Nationalities Papers, and East European Quarterly, amongst other publications.
Netroots Nation participation
- Netroots Nation 2012