Robert David Parmet (Stylized as Robert D. Parmet; born December 11, 1938)[1] is an American writer and teacher. He is a professor of history at York College, City University of New York.[2]
Parmet taught at Newark State College (now known as Kean University) from 1965 to 1967 in the Social Science Department,[3] and is currently employed at CUNY York and has worked there since its opening in 1967.[4] He has written four books on American social history from 1961 to 2012. Additionally he has written for many papers such as the History News Network,[5]United Press International,[6] and International Labor and Working-Class History under the Cambridge University Press.[7]
He has written extensively about labor and unions in 20th-century America, including those of women,[8] immigrants,[9] and of David Dubinsky.[10] In 1968, he received a $2,000 grant ($18,234.20 USD in 2024) to write a biography on American senator Chauncey Depew.[11] It was published in 1970.[12]
Parmet retired from full-time teaching at York College in Spring 2025 after 57 years.[13]
Personal life
Parmet was born in New York City in 1938. He is the son of Isaac Parmet and Fannie (née Scharf)[14] and is the brother of American historian Herbert Parmet.[15]
He received a B.A. (1960) from City College, and M.A. (1961) and Ph.D. (1966) degrees from Columbia University.[16] He taught at City College while attending Graduate School.[6] His master's thesis, "Cleveland, Blaine, and New York's Irish in the election of 1884," was written under the supervision of John A. Garraty. His doctoral dissertation, "The Know-Nothings in Connecticut," was written under the supervision of Eric McKitrick.
Parmet was married to Joan Levy on June 8, 1963.[17] She received her Masters in History from Columbia University in 1965.[18] They have a son, Andrew.[19]
↑ "DEPEW, Chauncey Mitchell (1834-1928)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 2024-09-08. Parmet, Robert D. "The Presidential Fever of Chauncey Depew". New-York Historical Society Quarterly 54 (July 1970): 269-90.
↑ National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: New York, Bronx, New York; Roll: 221; Page: 20; Enumeration District: 3-1791
↑ Year: 1940; Census Place: New York, Bronx, New York; Roll: m-t0627-02496; Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 3-1406
↑ Directory of American Scholars, 6th ed. (Bowker, 1974), Vol. I, p. 482.
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