Suleiman Osman
Associate Professor of American Studies, The George Washington University
Suleiman Osman is an Associate Professor of American Studies at George Washington University. His first book, The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn (2011, OUP), was awarded the Hornblower Prize from the New York Society Library. He has received grants and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the Graham Foundation. His articles and criticism have appeared in the Journal of Urban History, the Journal of Planning History, Society and Space, and City & Community. In 2023-2024, he is a fellow at the New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers where he is working on a history of gentrification in the United States from the late nineteenth century to the present.