Roy Lubove

Columbia University (BA)
Cornell University (PhD)

Doctoral advisorDavid Brion DavisAcademic workDisciplineSocial historyInstitutions

Harvard University
University of Pittsburgh

Roy Lubove (September 3, 1934 – February 17, 1995)^[1] was an American social historian. He was professor of social welfare and history at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of a number of social histories.^[2]

Biography

Lubove was born in Jackson Heights, Queens on September 3, 1934, to a family of Polish immigrants.^[1] He matriculated at the Bronx High School of Science and earned his bachelor's degree from Columbia College in 1956.^[2] He earned his doctorate from Cornell University in 1960 under historian David Brion Davis, and joined the faculty of Harvard University that year.^[2] His childhood experience living in densely developed Jackson Heights influenced his lifelong interest in studying the structure of neighborhoods, urban planning, and landscape design, and his upbringing during the Great Depression inspired him to study poverty and social welfare.^[1]

In 1963, Lubove joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh.^[2] He was a professor of history and social studies with dual appointments in the university's departments of social work and history. Lubove was the author of a number of influential and widely cited social histories, including The Struggle for Social Security, 1900-1935 (1968),^[3] The Professional Altruist: The Emergence of Social Work as a Career, 1880-1930 (1968), and Twentieth Century Pittsburgh, Vol. 1: Government, Business and Change (1969).^[2]^[4]^[5]^[6] He was credited for a number of scholarly contributions to the study of urban, social welfare, and planning history, such as by proposing a new conceptual framework for urban history, one that emphasized decision-making, social organization, and urban change, and provided what Raymond A. Mohl calls "one of the best historical case studies of ruban response to deindustrialization" in his book Twentieth Century Pittsburgh, Vol. 2: The Post-Steel Era (1995).^[5]

Lubove was a founding director of Preservation Pittsburgh and was a longtime advocate of preserving Pittsburgh's historical cityscape.^[2]^[7]^[8]

Lubove died of respiratory failure on February 17, 1995, at the Montefiore Hospital, Pittsburgh.^[2]^[8]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Muller, Edward K. (2001). "Roy Lubove – 1934-1995". Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. 68 (3): 269–277. ISSN 0031-4528. JSTOR 27774341.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Saxon, Wolfgang (1995-03-01). "Roy Lubove, 60, Social Historian At U. of Pittsburgh". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
^ Burns, Eveline M. (1969-04-01). "The Struggle for Social Security 1900–1935. By Roy Lubove. Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1968. 276 pp. $6.95". Social Work. 14 (2): 109–110. doi:10.1093/sw/14.2.109-a. ISSN 0037-8046.
^ Muller, Edward K. (2001). "A Roy Lubove Bibliography". Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. 68 (3): 363–366. ISSN 0031-4528. JSTOR 27774348.
^ ^a ^b Mohl, Raymond A. (2001). "Roy Lubove and American Urban History: A Review Essay on Pittsburgh's Post-Steel Era". Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. 68 (3): 354–362. ISSN 0031-4528. JSTOR 27774347.
^ Sirjamaki, John (November 1969). "ROY LUBOVE. Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh : Government, Business, and Environmental Change. Pp. x, 189. New York : John Wiley and Sons, 1969. No price". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 386 (1): 227–228. doi:10.1177/000271626938600179. ISSN 0002-7162. S2CID 143550660.
^ Webteam, University of Pittsburgh University Marketing Communications. "University Times » Roy Lubove". Retrieved 2022-06-28.
^ ^a ^b "In Memoriam, December 1995 | Perspectives on History | AHA". www.historians.org. Retrieved 2022-06-28.