Theodore Hershberg is a Professor of Public Policy and History and the Director of the Center for Greater Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 1967. He served as Assistant to the Mayor (Philadelphia) for Strategic Planning and Policy Development during a leave from Penn (1984-85). He was Acting Dean of Penn's School of Public and Urban Policy, holds M. A. and Ph.D. degrees in American History from Stanford University and studied sociology at Columbia University as a Social Science Research Council Fellow.