Over the past ten years, Stephen Pimpare has taught courses on American politics, public policy, and the history of social work and social welfare at New York University, the City University of New York, and Yeshiva University. He is the author of two books and over forty articles, essays, and reviews on poverty, welfare, and inequality; has been featured on Democracy Now, Minnesota Public Radio, and the Leonard Lopate Show; and has delivered recent lectures at the Urban Institute, the Yale Divinity School, and the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration. Pimpare’s second book, A People’s History of Poverty in America, received the 2009 Michael Harrington Award from the American Political Science Association and was included on the Baltimore Sun’s “Top 25” summer reading list. A Japanese edition was published in 2011. He is currently at work on The Celluloid Poorhouse: A History of Poverty and Homelessness in American Film.

Dr. Pimpare currently serves as a consultant for Education Northwest, the Bank Street College of Education, and AmeriCorps, helping to design a comprehensive online curriculum on poverty in the United States for VISTA volunteers. He has previously served as a senior-level administrator of not-for-profit direct service and advocacy organizations addressing issues of poverty, hunger, and homelessness throughout the five boroughs of New York City. One of the programs he helped to design and administer, One City Café, New York’s first non-profit restaurant, was hailed by the New York Times as “the reinvention of the soup kitchen” and subsequently received the Victory Against Hunger Award from the U.S. Congressional Hunger Center.

Pimpare has a B.S. in Urban Studies & Nonprofit Management from the State University of New York and a PhD in Political Science/Public Policy from the City University of New York. He can be found online at http://web.me.com/stephenpimpare/.

Last updated August 03, 2011 .