David Greenstein teaches and writes about United States history with a focus on transnational, comparative, imperial, and global perspectives.

Greenstein’s work has appeared in Comparative Studies in Society and History and in Journal of American History. His article, “Assembling Fordizm: The Production of Automobiles, Americans, and Bolsheviks in Detroit and Early Soviet Russia,” received the 2015 Joseph Ward Swain Prize for most outstanding graduate publication from the Department of History at the University of Illinois.  He is currently completing a project on  connections between Americans and Russians during economic, cultural, military, and humanitarian endeavors in the decade following the Bolshevik Revolution.

Recently, Greenstein’s public history work has included exhibits he curated on Latinx activist Rudy Lozano, the campaign for the Equal Rights Amendment in Illinois, civil defense planning in Chicago, local and global contexts of the 1919 Chicago race riots, student protests in 1968, and direct action campaigns organized by the National Organization of Women.

David Greenstein has taught courses covering United States history from interactions between indigenous peoples and European empires up to the present. He is currently teaching a series of courses that give class members the tools to locate, analyze, and explain archival materials that matter to them.