Oral history interview with Jeremy Varon, 2011.

Biographical Note

Associate Professor of History, The New School for Social Research.

Scope and Contents

Born: July 1967, Alexandria, VA; education: B.A. Brown University, 1989; Ph.D. Cornell University, 1998; career: Assistant Professor of History, Drew University (2000 -2008); Associate Professor of History, The New School (2009 -- present); co-editor, The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture (2007 -- present); career focus: 1960s movements, European and American intellectual history, politics and ethics of violence; discussions: Weathermen, 2000 Republican National Convention arrest, Billionaires for Bush, Witness Against Torture, news media coverage; reminiscences: post-Watergate era, anti-CIA activism, election of Barack Obama, effect of War on Terror on democratic society.

Subjects

• Billionaires (Organization)
• College teachers--Interviews.
• Grele, Ronald J., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Guantánamo Bay oral history project.
• Historians--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• New Left.
• Nineteen sixties.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Political violence--Moral and ethical aspects.
• Radicalism--United States.
• Social movements--United States.
• Varon, Jeremy, 1969---Interviews.
• War on Terrorism, 2001-2009--Political aspects.
• Weather Underground Organization.
• Witness Against Torture.

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