Eric Foner

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Eric Foner CC '63 is a History professor who teaches inexplicably popular classes on 19th century America, paritcularly the Jacksonian and Reconstruction eras. He is also a prominent alumnus of Columbia College, having received the John Jay Award in 2007, and a Kellett Fellow, having studied at Cambridge after graduating. Foner was a special invited guest to the Banquet in Honor of the King of Spain (although he did not attend).

Foner is known for his unabashedly leftist politics, and also teaches a class on radicalism in American history. Conservative David Horowitz named him one of the "101 most dangerous" professors in America.

Foner's ex-wife Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal is an alumna of both Barnard and Columbia. Her children, who she had after remarrying, are Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal, a College alumna and dropout, respectively, and both actors.