Robert Parmet
American writer
Robert David Parmet (stylized as Robert D. Parmet; born December 11, 1938) is an American writer and teacher. He is a professor of history at York College, City University of New York.
Career
Parmet taught at Newark State College (now known as Kean University) from 1965 to 1967 in the Social Science Department, and is currently employed at CUNY York and has worked there since its opening in 1967. 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, United Press International, and International Labor and Working-Class History under the Cambridge University Press.
He has written extensively about labor and unions in 20th-century America, including those of women, immigrants, and of David Dubinsky. In 1968, he received a $2,000 grant ($18,234.20 USD in 2024) to write a biography on American senator Chauncey Depew. It was published in 1970.
Parmet retired from full-time teaching at York College in Spring 2025 after 57 years.
Personal life
Parmet was born in New York City in 1938.
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