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Suleiman Osman joined the department in 2006. His primary interests are in U.S. urban history, the built environment, U.S. cultural and social history, and the study of race and ethnicity. He is currently teaching courses on race and ethnicity in the American metropolis, an introduction to American Studies, and a graduate research seminar in American urban history. Professor Osman did his doctoral work in the American Civilization Program at Harvard University. His dissertation, "The Birth of Postmodern New York: Gentrification, Postindustrialization, and Race in South Brooklyn, 1950-1980," analyzes the history of "gentrification" in brownstone Brooklyn.
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