Eric Schneider: B.A. Fordham University , M.A., Ph.D. Boston University . Eric Schneider is the Associate Director of Academic Affairs in the School of Arts and Sciences and Adjunct Associate Professor of History. Schneider is interested in the history of youth and adolescence, the history of criminal justice, and U.S. urban and social history. He has written one book about the history of juvenile justice, largely from an institutional perspective ( In the Web of Class: Delinquents and Reformers in Boston , 1810s-1930s ), and a book about the social spaces adolescents created for themselves ( Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian Kings: Youth Gangs in Postwar New York ). Schneider’s current research project is on the history of heroin and its impact on the American city in the years between 1940 and 1980 ( The Golden Spike: Heroin and the Modern City). He has been a program officer in a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as a public historian at the American History Workshop.

Courses: URBS 110-301 (Crime & Punishment), URBS 400 (Senior Seminar)