Thomas Kessner is an American historian, a Distinguished Professor at City University of New York, and an author.
[1][2][3] Kessner is a graduate of Brooklyn College (1963) and earned his doctorate at Columbia University in 1975 with distinction.
He was appointed as distinguished professor at Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2005.
He was also an associate editor for The Encyclopedia of New York City and has directed more than half a dozen NEH summer seminars for college and high school teachers.
co-authored with Betty Boyd Caroli Kessner’s work has garnered awards and fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies.