Experts at Empire State College

Ian Reifowitz
Assistant professor
Old Westbury, NY

Expertise

• Nationalism, ethnicity and identity
• New media/Internet/blogs
• Pluralism in America
• Race relations
• U.S. politics
• Arab-Israeli conflict

Profile

Ian Reifowitz specializes in issues of nationalism, ethnicity and identity, including the Arab-Israeli conflict. As an Assistant Professor in Historical Studies, he teaches American history, Western civilization and non-Western history. His areas of expertise include the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Germany and European Jewish history.

Reifowitz has published a number of articles on these historical topics in academic journals, as well as articles on contemporary issues relating to pluralism in America in The New Republic (online). He authored a book, Imagining an Austrian Nation: Joseph Samuel Bloch and the Search for a Multiethnic Austrian Identity, 1846-1919. (East European Monographs; distributed by Columbia University Press, 2003).

Reifowitz earned his Bachelor of Arts in History from Brown University, and his Master of Arts and Ph.D. in History from Georgetown University.