Daniel Wortel-London

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Education

Ph.D., New York University, History Department, 2020.

M.Phil., CUNY Graduate Center, History Department, 2011.

B.A., Ramapo College of New Jersey, American History and American Studies Department, 2008. 

 

Professional Employment

Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Bard College

 

Dissertation

Title: In Debt to Growth: Real Estate and the Political Economy of Public Finance in New York City, 1880-1973.

Committee: Andrew Needham (Chair), Thomas Sugrue, Kimberly-Phillips Fein.

 

Teaching Experience

Instructor of Record:

Bard College                                                              “Growth and Its Discontents: A History of the United States, 1865-2024” Fall 2024.

                                                                                      “A History of New York City, 1664-2024” Fall 2024.

Tandon School of Engineering, NYU                   “Introduction to New York City     Infrastructure.” Spring 2019.

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College of Staten Island, CUNY                              “History of the United States City.”  Summer 2012.  

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Adjunct Instructor:

Bronx Community College, CUNY                         “ENG 02: Why do people do what they do?” Fall 2013, Spring 2014,

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College of Staten Island, CUNY                             “US History II: 1865-Present.” Summer 2011.            

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Hunter College, CUNY                                          “US History II: 1865-Present.” Spring 2011, Fall 2011. ​​

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City College, CUNY                                                 “US History 1: 1492-1865.”  Summer 2009, Summer 2010. “US History Survey: 1692-

Present.” Spring 2009.​

Course Assistant:

NYU Shanghai                                                          “Who is An American? Exploring Race, Gender, Religion, and Culture in the United

         States.” Fall 2020        

Publications

Manuscripts In Production

2025                        Daniel Wortel-London, “The Menace of Prosperity: Private Growth, Public Costs, and the Struggle for Economic

Development in New York City” (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025).

 

Peer-Reviewed Articles

2024                        Daniel Wortel-London, “Absolute Conflict: Economic Growth and its Discontents During the Great Depression,”

Journal of American History (Revise and Resubmit).

2020                        Daniel Wortel-London and Boyd Cothran, “A Second Gilded Age? The Promises and Perils of an Analogy,”

Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 19, No. 2 (April 2020), 191-196.

2014                        Daniel Wortel-London, “Outside the World of Tomorrow: New York Labor and the Public Sphere in the 1939-1940

New York World's Fair," Journal of Urban History 40, No. 6 (2014), 1011-1027.

2013                        Daniel Wortel-London, "Progress and Authenticity: Urban Renewal, Urban Tourism, and the Meaning(s) of Mid-

Twentieth-Century New York," Journal of Tourism History 5, No. 2 (2013), 172-184.

 

Book Chapters

2022                       Daniel Wortel-London, “All’s Fare: Subways and the development of New York Metropolitan Politics, 1904- 1933”

in Joseph Heathcott, Jonathan Soffer, and Rae Zimmerman, eds., Urban Infrastructure: Historical and Social Dimensions of an Interconnected World (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022), 147-164.

2014                       Daniel Wortel-London, “Banca Stabile: Serving Immigrants’ Financial Needs” in Steven Jaffe and Jessica Lautlin,

eds., Capital of Capital: Money, Banking, and Power in New York City, 1784-2012 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014), 111-113.

 

Book Reviews

2021                         How Ideas Shape Urban Political Development by Richardson Dilworth, Journal of Urban History 47, no. 6

(Spring 2021), 1363-1369.

2020                        New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal that Launched the Progressive Era by Daniel Czitrom, Journal

of Social History 53, no. 3 (Spring 2020), 837-839.

2019                        In Union There is Strength: Philadelphia in the Age of Urban Consolidation by Andrew Heath, Harvard Business

History Review 93, no. 4 (Winter 2019), 841-844.

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Web-Based Academic Publications

2023                        Daniel Wortel-London, “Redlining in Manhattan,” Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America, October

29, 2023.

2019                         Daniel Wortel-London, “The Public Costs of Private Growth: Amazon, the Great  Depression, and the Fiscal

History #HQ2 Supporters Miss,” Metropole: The Journal of Urban History Blog, January 28, 2019. 

2018                         Daniel Wortel-London “Taxing the Land: Henry George, NYC, and the Land Value Tax,” Metropole: The Journal

of Urban History Blog, January 7, 2018.

 

Fellowships, Awards and Research Grants

External Fellowships, Awards, and Research Grants

Spring 2022-Fall 2022               Visiting Scholar, Urban Democracy Lab, New York University.

Spring 2019-Spring 2020           Jefferson National Fellow, Jefferson Scholars Foundation (Formerly Miller Center Fellowship in

Politics and History).  

Spring 2019-Spring 2020           Louis Galambos National Fellow in Business and Politics, Hagley Museum and Library.

Summer 2019-Spring 2020       Clarence S. Stein Institute for Urban and Landscape Studies Fellowship, Cornell University School of

Architecture, Arts and Planning.

Spring 2019-Spring 2020           Larry J. Hackman Research Residency, New York State Archives.

 

Internal Fellowships, Awards, and Research Grants

Fall 2020                                   Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship, NYU Shanghai

Spring 2019                               Bessie and George Levy Prize for Excellence in American History, NYU

Summer 2016                            Polonsky Foundation Digital Humanities Internship, NYU (declined)

 

Presentations and Invited Talks

Invited Talks

2024                                          Ecological Economics Conference, United States Society for Ecological Economics, June 7th, 2024. 

2024                                          Climate Change and History Research Initiative, Princeton University, “Environmental history and policy:

approaches and challenges,” June 3rd, 2024.

2022                                          Regional Planning Association of New York, “History of Urban Economics in the New York Metropolitan

Region, July 7th, 2022.

2020                                             John Hopkins University, “In Debt to the Suburbs: The fiscal geography of 1920s New York,” March 8th,

2020.

                                       Hagley Museum and Library, “Private Growth, Public Costs: Municipal Finance and Reform in New York

       City, 1877-1913.” January 23rd, 2020.

Panels Organized

2016                                    Urban History Association Annual Meeting, Chicago IL, “The Social Question Goes to Space: The Political

Economy of the Urban Built Environment in the American Gilded Age and Progressive Era.”  October 16, 2016.

 

Papers Presented

2022                                   The Society of American City and Regional Planning History Conference, City College New York, Planning

the Metropolitan Economy, October 22 2022.

2021                                   Policy History Conference, Tempe Arizona, Presenter, “Progress and Property Taxes: Henry George and the

Geography of Taxation in New York City, 1877-1916.” June 5, 2021.

2017                                    Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Urban Infrastructure, History and the Social Sciences, NYU Paris, “All’s

Fare: Subways and the Development of New York Metropolitan Politics, 1904-1933.” May 30-June 1, 2017.

2012                                    Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Milwaukee WI, “A Contested Public Space: The La

Guardia Administration and Labor’s Place in the 1939–40 New York World’s Fair.” April 19, 2012.

American Association of Geographers Annual Conference, New York NY, “Building the Great Community: John Dewey and the Public Spaces of Pragmatism.” February 2, 2012.

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Discussant

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Urban Infrastructure, History and the Social Sciences, NYU Paris, “Transit and Taxes” Panel. May 30-June 1, 2018.

 

Academic Leadership and Service

Departmental/University Service

• NYU History Department, Criticism and the Humanities Working Group, Organizer and Presenter, 2016-2018.

• CUNY Graduate Center History Department, “Putting the ‘Public’ in ‘PH.D’: A Roundtable Discussion and Workshop.” Organizer and Presenter, September 5 2011.

 

Service to Profession 

• Journal of the History of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Graduate Student Editorial Board Member, Fall 2016-2019. Special Issue Guest Editor “A Second Gilded Age?” (Volume 19, No. 2, April 2020).

• Gotham Center for New York City History at the CUNY Graduate Center, Conference Co-Organizer, “A Second Gilded Age: Historical Parallels, Differences, Lessons.” April 9 2019.

• Cornell University, History of Capitalism workshop, Participant, July 8-21, 2019.

• Journal of the History of Ideas, Web Editor, 2017-2018.

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Advocacy work

Policy Specialist, Center for the Advancement of a Steady State Economy, Spring 2023-Present.

Knowledge Co-Lead, Wellbeing Economy Alliance, Fall 2022-Spring 2023.

  • Researcher, Upstate/Downstate Housing Alliance, Spring 2019.

Researcher, New York City Democratic Socialists of America, Housing, Political Education, Debt and Finance Working Groups, Spring 2017-Fall 2018.

  • Assistant Author, Adelphi Public Policy Institute, Fall 2014-Spring 2015.

  • Research Coordinator, Civworld at DEMOS, Fall-2011-Spring 2014.

 

Related Professional Skills 

• Arc-GIS

• Topic Modelling and Text-Analysis

 

Languages

• English (reading and writing fluency)

• Spanish (reading proficiency)