Jonathan Zimmerman is an American historian of education who is a professor of history of education at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.
[1] Zimmerman graduated from Columbia College in 1983, where he was the editor-in-chief of Columbia Daily Spectator.
in history in 1990, and a Ph.D. in history in 1993, both from Johns Hopkins University.
[3] He taught for 20 years at New York University, where he was chair of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
[3] Though being a social liberal, he champions unrestricted freedom of speech for all, including conservatives.