Olivier Zunz (born 1946) is a social historian, and Commonwealth Professor at the

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, known for his work on Twentieth Century history of the American urban society and the development of modern philanthropy.Logan, John R., and Harvey L. Molotch. ''Urban fortunes: The political economy of place.'' Univ of California Press, 2007. He is also a leading Tocqueville historian.

Early life

Zunz was born and raised in France. He received his BA in history and geography (licence d'histoire et de géographie) from the

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in 1968, his PhD from the Pantheon-Sorbonne University in 1977, where in 1982 he also received his

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. Zunz also spent several years studying at Princeton.

Career

Since 1979 he has been a Commonwealth Professor at the Corcoran Department of History of the

. In 1986 he was awarded a

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for his exceptional work on US history. In 2011, he was named an Officier of the French Ordre National du Mérite.

Selected publications

*Philanthropy in America: A History. Princeton University Press, 2012. (French translation: La Philanthropie en Amérique. Argent privé, affaires d'Etat, Fayard, 2012). * 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 ith 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 ith Comment, with Response" ''Journal of American Ethnic History,'' 38-101

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