Glenn C. Altschuler

Who is Glenn C. Altschuler?

Glenn Altschuler is the Vice President for University Relations, the Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions, the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies, and a Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University. He received his Ph.D. in American History from Cornell in 1976 and has been an administrator and teacher at Cornell since 1981.

Altschuler is noted for his work on the history of American popular culture. He believes that popular culture is "contested terrain"—in which social and economic groups struggle to make their marks on society. Since 1991, he has served as Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions. His year-long course in American Popular Culture is among the most popular in the university.

For four years Altschuler wrote a column on higher education for the Education Life section of the New York Times. From 2002-2005, he was a regular panelist on national and international affairs for the WCNY television program The Ivory Tower Half-Hour.