Daniel Wortel-London  

Historian of 20th century economic thought and public policy
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Daniel is an assistant professor of history at Bard College. He is currently under contract with the University of Chicago Press a monograph based on his dissertation entitled "The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1875-1981."  A graduate of NYU's History Ph.D program in History, he defended his dissertation in May of 2020 aunder the supervision of Andrew Needham, Thomas Sugrue, Kim Phillips-Fein, Mason Williams, Owen Gutfreund, and Robin Einhorn. 
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His writing has been featured in the Journal of Urban History, the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, the Journal of Tourism History, the Harvard Business History Review, and the Journal of Social History. His research has received support from the Louis Galambos National Fellowship in Business and Politics, and the Jefferson Scholars National Fellowship (formerly the Miller Center National Fellowship in Politics and History), and has been awarded the Bessie and George Levy Prize for Excellence in American History at New York University.  His writing has also been featured in public venues such as the Washington Post, the New York Daily News, Jacobin, Shareable, and Tribune Magazine. 
 
Daniel has taught undergraduate courses as the instructor of record at NYU Shanghai, the Tandon School of Engineering, Hunter College, the College of Staten Island, City College, and Bronx Community College. He has also served as a curatorial fellow at the Museum of the City of New York, research coordinator for Civworld at Demos, knowledge co-lead at the Wellbeing Economy Alliance, and Policy Specialist at the Center for the Advancement of a Steady State Economy. ​