Eric Foner
Eric Foner CC '63 is a leftist professor who teaches inexplicably popular classes on 19th century American history, 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).