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 work on the history of heroin (Smack: Heroin and the American City) examines the spatial organization of the heroin trade, the creation of heroin marketplaces, and the recruitment of new users and sellers. His current research is on the history of homicide in the postwar city, with a focus on Philadelphia. 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 012-301 (The History and Politics of Place), URBS 110-301 (Crime & Punishment), URBS 210/HIST 210-401 (The City), URBS 400 (Senior Seminar)