Jeremy Peter Varon (born 1967) [1] is an American historian. He is a professor of history at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. [2] He is the author of the books, Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies (2004) [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] and The New Life: The Jewish Students of Postwar Germany (2014). [8] [9] [10] He cofounded and coedits The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture, an academic journal published by Taylor & Francis. [2]
Varon completed a B.A. in history at Brown University in 1989. He earned a M.A. (1995) and Ph.D. (1998) in History at Cornell University, under doctoral advisor Dominick LaCapra. [2]
Varon was a historian at Drew University. [11]