Bernstein, Lee
M.A., Boston College
Ph.D., the University of Minnesota
Professor
Career History
He has taught at New Paltz since 2004..
Teaching Interests
Undergraduate Courses:
US History Since 1865
Postwar America
US Foreign Policy Since 1900
Prisons and Prisoners in the U.S.
American Immigration
Graduate Courses:
Interpretations of American History
Recent American History
Research/Creative Activity
Lee Bernstein's research and writing focus on the history of organized crime and the history of prisons and prisoners.
Publications
In addition to presentations at scholarly conferences, he lectures to audiences throughout the Hudson Valley on topics related to postwar American history and the history of crime and punishment. He is the author of The Greatest Menace: Organized Crime in Cold War America (University of Massachusetts Press) and America is the Prison: Arts and Politics in Prison in the 1970s (University of North Carolina Press).
