Rate My Professor Jeremy Varon

Jeremy Varon is a Professor of History at The New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. He earned a B.A. in History from Brown University in 1989, an M.A. in History from Cornell University in 1995, and a Ph.D. in History from Cornell University in 1998. His main research and teaching areas include post-1945 US history, the global 1960s, the Holocaust, social movements, political violence, and human rights in the “War on Terror.” Varon’s first book, Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies, was published in 2004. His second book, The New Life: Jewish Students of Postwar Germany, appeared in 2014. He co-edited Nuclear Threats, Nuclear Fear and the Cold War of the 1980s, published by Cambridge University Press in 2016, and his most recent book, Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War: The Movement to Stop the War on Terror, was released in 2025. Varon co-founded and co-edits The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture. He has been on the faculty at The New School since 2008 and has conducted nearly 100 oral histories as part of his research. Varon is active in social justice efforts, including opposition to the Iraq wars and work with Witness Against Torture. He has contributed essays to publications such as Public Seminar and the Los Angeles Review of Books.