Lisa Levenstein, associate professor of history, co-authored with Rutgers history professor Jennifer Mittelstadt an op-ed about the nation’s food stamps program originally published by the Los Angeles Times and reprinted in many local newspapers across the country. The column was selected as one of the top five opinion columns of the day by The Atlantic magazine’s website, the Atlantic Wire.

Recent criticism of the program by conservative politicians is misguided, they argue. “The nation’s food stamp program is an essential part of the American safety net. Why? Because people can’t be productive — in school, at work or looking for work — if they are hungry and fearful about not having enough food to feed their families.”

Levenstein is the author of the 2009 book “A Movement Without Marches: African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia,” which won the Kenneth Jackson Book Award from the Urban History Association and an honorable mention for the Frederick Jackson Turner Award from the Organization of American Historians.

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