Jim Cullen

Jim Cullen was born in Queens, New York, and attended public schools on Long Island. He received his B.A. in English from Tufts University, and his A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in American Civilization from Brown University. He has taught at a number of colleges and universities, including Harvard, Brown and Sarah Lawrence College, and currently teaches in the History Department of the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York City. He is married to historian Lyde Cullen Sizer and has four children.

Jim is the author of over dozen books, which include “Sensing the Past: Hollywood Stars and Historical Visions” (Oxford University Press, 2013), “The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation” (Oxford, 2003) and “Born in the USA: Bruce Springsteen and the American Tradition” (HarperCollins, 1997).

His essays and reviews have been published in the Washington Post, USA Today, Rolling Stone, and the American Historical Review, among other periodicals. I published three books in 2021: From Memory to History: Television Versions of the Twentieth Century, Martin Scorsese and the American Dream, and my first novel, Best Class You Never Had.