Jerome L. Sternstein ’68 PhD

Jerome L. Sternstein ’68 PhD, of Hawley, Mass.; Nov. 19. He taught American history at the University of Iowa while completing his doctoral research. His dissertation received the Allen Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians for the best dissertation that year. This honor led to a one-year fellowship at Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center and an appointment to the faculty of Columbia University, where he taught until 1974, when he became a professor at CUNY’s Brooklyn College. During his tenure at Brooklyn College, he coedited the Encyclopedia of American Biography and authored numerous articles about the Gilded Age. He is survived by wife Trina, two daughters, and four grandchildren.