Education:
D.Ed., Harvard University - 1971 (Educational Administration)
M.A.T., Harvard Graduate School of Education - 1963 (English )
B.A., Williams College - 1962
Areas of Expertise:
Brumberg's field of study is American educational history, especially the intersection of immigration, religion and formal schooling. His particular time focus is the 19th century and turn of the 20th century. His professional education focus is school curriculum (historical and contemporary), which he has taught for many years in the Educational Leadership Program. He also served for a year as the senior assistant to the New York City Schools Chancellor Raymond Cortines.
Books and Publications
Review of Passionate Pioneers: the Story of Yiddish Secular Education in North America, 1910-1960, by Fradle Pomerantz Freidenreich. History of Education Quarterly 52.3, August: 433-36. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2012
"The Education of Jewish, Protestant and Catholic Children in Mid-nineteenth-century New York City." The American Jewish Archives Journal (special issue in celebration of Naomi W. Cohen) X.2 (2009): 10-41 (published 2010). (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2010
"Education of Jewish Girls in the United States." Electronic encyclopedia essay. Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Jewish Women's Archive, March 9, http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/author/brumberg-stephan. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2009
"The One-Way Window: Public Schools on the Lower East Side." Remembering the Lower East Side. Eds. Hasia Diner, Jeffrey Shandler and Beth Wenger. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2000
"The Teacher Crisis and Educational Standards in New York City." City Schools: Lessons from New York. Eds. Diana Ravitch and Joseph Viteritti. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2000
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Lucius Littauer Foundation grant, to complete research and writing of "Common Schools, Uncommon Faith: Religious Conflict and the Shaping of American Education." $40,000. (Awards and Honors) 2008
Lucius Littauer Foundation grant, to conduct research and writing of the study "Common Schools, Uncommon Faith: Religious Conflict and the Shaping of American Education," to be published by Yale University Press. $18,500. (Awards and Honors) 2005
Research Activities
Member, Center for Jewish History's Scholars Working Group in New York City. 2010
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"Immigrants at School." Department of History, Columbia College. March 28. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
Respondent to paper presented by Professor Melissa Wiener, "Power Protest and the Public Schools: Jewish and African American Struggles in NYC." Working Group on Jews in NYC. Center for Jewish History. April 5. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
"Religious Conflicts in 19th c. America and How They Indelibly Shaped American Education." Perspectives on Urban Education Lecture Series, Ph.D. Program in Urban Education, CUNY Graduate Center. New York, Dec. 4. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
"Give Us This Day Our Daily Bible: The Contentious Place of Scripture in the American Common School." History of Education Society's Annual Meeting. Cleveland, October 27. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007
"Common Schools in a Community of Many Faiths: Religious Conflicts and the Shaping of New York City's Educational Landscape in the 1840s." Brick Presbyterian Church. New York, February 5. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006
"Learning to be Jewish in Nineteenth-Century America." Kane Street Synagogue, March 5. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006
"Learning to Be Jewish in Nineteenth-Century America." The Beginnings of the Jewish Community in the City of Churches Symposium. Kane Street Synagogue, March 5. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006
"Bishop John Hughes: A Father of American Education." Annual Meeting of the History of Education Society. Evanston, Ill., November 2. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2003
"The Nineteenth-Century Bible Wars in America's Schools and Their Impact on the Education of American Jews." Fifth Biennial Scholars' Conference on American Jewish History, The Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society and the Center for Jewish Studies. SUNY Albany, June 10. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2002
Professional Leadership
Chairman, Selection Committee, Ruth B. Rein Prize (student stipend to travel to archival collection), American Jewish Historical Society. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2010
Member, Annual Meeting (November, Cambridge, Mass.) Program Committee, History of Education Society. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010
Member, Executive Committee, Urban Education Doctoral Program, CUNY Graduate Center. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010
Member, Selection Committee, Lapidus Fellowship (faculty research or archival collections), American Jewish Historical Society. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010
Chairman, selection committee, Ruth B. Rein Prize (student stipend to travel to archival collection), American Jewish Historical Society. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2009
Member, selection committee, Lapidus Fellowship (faculty research or archival collections), American Jewish Historical Society. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2009
Judge, American Jewish Historical Society panel to determine the best article published the past year in the Journal of American Jewish History.
Chairman, American Jewish Historical Society Committee to select the Lapidus Fellow (professorial rank) to support research in the Archives of the Society, and the Fein Award (graduate student) to support research in the society's archives. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2008
Judge, American Jewish Historical Society panel to select best article published in past year in the Journal of American Jewish History.
Named to panel to select best student essay submitted to 2007-08 essay competiton of the American Jewish Historical Society. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2007
Community Activities
Represented Brooklyn College at the Tackling Poverty Conference, sponsored by City Limits and the Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness, Oct. 3. 2012
Other Professional Activities
Member, "The Future of Education in New York State" panel, with State Education Commissioner David Steiner and Clara Hemphill, educational journalist, organized by NY State Senator Liz Krueger, Sept. 21. 2010
