Jeremy Peter Varon (born 1967) is an American historian. He is a professor of history at the

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and

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. 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) and ''The New Life: The Jewish Students of Postwar Germany'' (2014). He cofounded and coedits ''The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture'', an

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published by

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. Varon completed a B.A. in history at

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in 1989. He earned a M.A. (1995) and Ph.D. (1998) in History at

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, under doctoral advisor

Dominick LaCapra Dominick LaCapra (born 1939) is an American-born historian of European intellectual history, best known for his work in intellectual history and trauma studies. He served as the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies at Cornell ...

. Varon was a historian at

Drew University Drew University is a private university in Madison, New Jersey, United States. It has a wooded campus. As of fall 2020, more than 2,200 students were pursuing degrees at the university's three schools. While affiliated with the Methodism, Me ...

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* 21st-century American historians Living people Brown University alumni Cornell University alumni Drew University faculty Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts faculty Place of birth missing (living people) 1967 births 21st-century American male writers {{US-historian-stub