Rate My Professor Robert Snyder

Snyder’s research focuses on New York City history, urban life, immigration, workers, popular culture, and public history. His key publications include Crossing Broadway: Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City (Cornell University Press, 2014), The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York (Ivan R. Dee), Transit Talk: New York’s Bus and Subway Workers Tell Their Stories (Rutgers University Press, 1998), Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York (co-authored, Norton/Smithsonian, winner of the College Art Association’s Barr Prize), and All the Nations Under Heaven: Immigrants, Migrants, and the Making of New York (co-authored, revised edition, Columbia University Press, 2019). He has published scholarly articles in the Journal of Urban History, Journal of American History, Journalism, and Reviews in American History, as well as pieces in The New York Times, The Nation, Columbia Journalism Review, and The Star-Ledger. Snyder co-curated the Smithsonian exhibit for Metropolitan Lives, produced the award-winning documentary City Kids Meet Ashcan Art (Gold Apple, National Educational Media Network), and consulted for NPR’s Peabody Award-winning Sonic Memorial project. Appointed Manhattan Borough Historian in November 2019, he served as a Fulbright Scholar in 2016 at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in South Korea, teaching American studies. In 2018, he received the Livingston College Distinguished Alumni Award.