{{Short description|American professor (born 1938)}} {{Infobox person | name = Robert Parmet | birth_name = Robert David Parmet | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1938|12|11}} | birth_place = New York City, New York, United States | alma_mater = Columbia University | occupation = Professor | years_active = 1961–present | employer = York College, City University of New York | spouse = Joan Levy (m. 1963) | children = 1 | relatives = Herbert Parmet (brother) }} '''Robert David Parmet''' (stylized as ''Robert D. Parmet''; born December 11, 1938)<ref>Gale Research Company; Detroit, Michigan; Accession Number: ''955488''</ref> is an American writer and teacher. He is a professor of history at York College, City University of New York.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Robert D. Parmet |url=https://nyupress.org/author/robert-d-parmet/ |access-date=2024-09-08 |website=NYU Press |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Career == Parmet taught at Newark State College (now known as Kean University) from 1965 to 1967 in the Social Science Department,<ref>''"U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012"''; School Name: ''Kean University''; Year: ''1967''</ref> and is currently employed at CUNY York and has worked there since its opening in 1967.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016 |title=York History Revisited at Executive Leadership Breakfast |url=https://www.york.cuny.edu/academics/academic-affairs/newsletter/volume-10-issue-3/view |access-date=2024-09-09 |website=york.cuny.edu |page=3}}</ref> 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,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Parmet |first=Robert D. |date=2013-04-07 |title=Review of Lisa Phillips's "A Renegade Union: Interracial Organizing and Labor Radicalism" (Illinois, 2012) |url=https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/robert-d-parmet-review-of-lisa-phillipss-a-renegad |access-date=2024-09-08 |website=History News Network |language=en}}</ref> United Press International,<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=1973-11-11 |title=From Dallas to Watergate |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/901417656 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-09-08 |work=The Monitor |pages=19 |language=en}}</ref> and International Labor and Working-Class History under the Cambridge University Press.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Howard |first=Walter T. |date=1999 |title=Review of The United Mine Workers of America: A Model of Industrial Solidarity?; The Challenge of Interracial Unionism: Alabama Coal Miners, 1878-1921 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27672626 |journal=International Labor and Working-Class History |issue=56 |pages=177–180 |jstor=27672626 |issn=0147-5479}}</ref>
He has written extensively about labor and unions in 20th-century America, including those of women,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wax |first=Emily |date=1998-09-06 |title=A Driving Force |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/707638732 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-09-08 |work=Newsday |pages=156 |language=en}}</ref> immigrants,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Danyluk |first=Harry |date=1981-12-29 |title=Immigrant Workers |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/486220348 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-09-09 |work=New York Daily News |pages=101 |language=en}}</ref> and of David Dubinsky.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Crowe |first=Kenneth C. |date=1995-02-21 |title=Union's Influence Has Waned |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/725494629 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-09-08 |work=Newsday |pages=32 |language=en}}</ref> In 1968, he received a $2,000 grant ($18,234.20 USD in 2024) to write a biography on American senator Chauncey Depew.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1968-05-28 |title=Dr. Parmet Gets Grant to Write on Depew |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/909670284 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-09-08 |work=The Reporter Dispatch |pages=23 |language=en}}</ref> It was published in 1970.<ref>{{Cite web |title=DEPEW, Chauncey Mitchell (1834-1928) |url=https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=d000264 |access-date=2024-09-08 |website=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |quote=Parmet, Robert D. "The Presidential Fever of Chauncey Depew". ''New-York Historical Society Quarterly'' 54 (July 1970): 269-90.}}</ref>
Parmet retired from full-time teaching at York College in Spring 2025 after 57 years.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Professor Robert Parmet Retires After 57 Years but Continues to Inspire |url=https://www.york.cuny.edu/news/2025/professor-robert-parmet-retires-after-57-years-but-continues-to-inspire |access-date=2025-05-08 |website=York College |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Personal life == Parmet was born in New York City in 1938. He is the son of Isaac Parmet and Fannie (née Scharf)<ref>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''</ref> and is the brother of American historian Herbert Parmet.<ref>Year: ''1940''; Census Place: ''New York, Bronx, New York''; Roll: ''m-t0627-02496''; Page: ''11A''; Enumeration District: ''3-1406''</ref>
He received a B.A. (1960) from City College, and M.A. (1961) and Ph.D. (1966) degrees from Columbia University.<ref name="Dictionary 482">''Directory of American Scholars'', 6th ed. (Bowker, 1974), Vol. I, p. 482.</ref> He taught at City College while attending Graduate School.<ref name=":0" /> 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.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1963-06-12 |title=Robert Parmet Marries at Lincoln Park Center |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/677892277 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-09-08 |work=Herald Statesman |pages=10 |language=en}}</ref> She received her Masters in History from Columbia University in 1965.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1965-06-10 |title=Mrs. Robert Parmet |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/894258152 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-09-08 |work=Mount Vernon Argus |pages=6 |language=en}}</ref> They have a son, Andrew.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Greene |first=Dick |date=1978-09-12 |title=Seen and Heard in Our Neighborhood |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/252514450 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-09-08 |work=The Star Press |pages=4 |language=en}}</ref>
== Bibliography ==
=== Books === * {{Cite book |last1=Leonard |first1=Ira M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=arrtAAAAMAAJ&q=nostrand |title=American Nativism, 1830-1860 |last2=Parmet |first2=Robert D. |publisher=Van Nostrand Reinhold |year=1971 |isbn=978-0-44278-188-0|language=en}} * {{Cite book |last=Parmet |first=Robert D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mYwrAQAAIAAJ&q=twayne |title=Labor and Immigration in Industrial America |date=1981 |publisher=Twayne Publishers |isbn=978-0-80578-418-3|language=en}} * {{Cite book |last=Parmet |first=Robert D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h3NuvaqMOhwC |title=The Master of Seventh Avenue: David Dubinsky and the American Labor Movement |publisher=NYU Press |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-8147-6711-5 |language=en}} * {{Cite book |last=Parmet |first=Robert D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v82lcegLd4kC |title=Town and Gown: The Fight for Social Justice, Urban Rebirth, and Higher Education |date=2011-11-24 |publisher=Lexington Books |isbn=978-1-61147-473-2 |language=en}}
=== Papers === * Parmet, Robert D. (1966). "Connecticut's Know-Nothings: A Profile." ''Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin'' '''31''' (3): 84–90. * Parmet, Robert D. (1970). "The Presidential Fever of Chauncey Depew." ''New York Historical Society Quarterly'' '''54''' (3): 268-290. * {{Cite journal |last=Parmet |first=Robert D. |date=1971 |title=Schools for the Freedmen |url= https://www.jstor.org/stable/24766513 |journal=Negro History Bulletin |language=en |volume=34 |issue=6 |pages=128–132 |jstor=24766513 |issn=0028-2529|url-access=subscription }} * {{Cite journal |last=Parmet |first=Robert D. |date=1972 |title=Competition for the World's Columbian Exposition: The New York Campaign |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40191202 |journal=Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society |language=en |volume=65 |issue=4 |pages=365–381 |jstor=40191202 |issn=0019-2287|url-access=subscription }} * {{Cite journal |last=Parmet |first=Robert D. |date=1982 |title=Labor and Immigration in Industrial America. (Immigrant Heritage of America Series.) |url=https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-lookup/doi/10.1086/ahr/87.4.1177 |journal=The American Historical Review |language=en |volume=87 |issue=4 |doi=10.1086/ahr/87.4.1177 |issn=1937-5239|url-access=subscription }} * {{Cite journal |last1=Parmet |first1=Robert D. |last2=Papanikolas |first2=Zeese |date=1983 |title=Buried Unsung: Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre |url=https://academic.oup.com/jah/article-lookup/doi/10.2307/1890597 |journal=The Journal of American History |volume=70 |issue=1 |pages=176 |doi=10.2307/1890597|jstor=1890597 |url-access=subscription }} * {{Cite journal |last=Parmet |first=Robert D. |date=1985 |title=Capeci, Dominic J., Jr. Race Relations in Wartime Detroit: The Sojourner Truth Housing Controversy of 1942 |url=https://utpjournals.press/doi/10.7202/1017898ar |journal=Urban History Review |language=en |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=86–87 |doi=10.7202/1017898ar |issn=0703-0428}} * {{Cite journal |last=Parmet |first=Robert D. |date=1988 |title=Fishman, Robert. Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia. Gale, Dennis E. Washington, D.C.: Inner-City Revitalization and Minority Suburbanization. |url=https://utpjournals.press/doi/10.7202/1017672ar |journal=Urban History Review |language=en |volume=17 |issue=2 |pages=136–137 |doi=10.7202/1017672ar |issn=0703-0428}} * {{Cite journal |last1=Parmet |first1=Robert D. |last2=Marks |first2=Gary |date=1990 |title=Unions in Politics: Britain, Germany, and the United States in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. |url=https://academic.oup.com/jah/article-lookup/doi/10.2307/2079272 |journal=The Journal of American History |volume=77 |issue=2 |pages=691 |doi=10.2307/2079272|jstor=2079272 |url-access=subscription }} * {{Cite journal |last=Parmet |first=Robert D. |date=1999 |title=Peter Kwong, Forbidden Workers: Illegal Chinese Immigrants and American Labor |url=http://www.journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0147547999452883 |journal=International Labor and Working-Class History |volume=56 |pages=175–177 |doi=10.1017/S0147547999452883|url-access=subscription }} * {{Cite journal |last=Parmet |first=Robert D. |date=2018 |title=Clarence Irving and the Rediscovery of Black America |url=https://academicworks.cuny.edu/yc_pubs/209/ |journal=CUNY Academic Works}}
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== External links ==
* [https://www.york.cuny.edu/directory/rparmet Robert Parmet at CUNY York] {{Authority control|qid=Q130262515}}
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