Cynthia Wachtell is a research associate professor of American Studies and the founding director of the S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program at Yeshiva University. She earned a joint BA and MA in American Studies, summa cum laude, from Yale University and an AM in English and PhD in the History of American Civilization from Harvard University. A native New Yorker, she lives in Manhattan with her husband and two sons.

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