My name is Dylan Gottlieb, and I write and teach about the history of American cities and capitalism as an assistant professor in the History Department at Bentley University. 

 

My book, Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York, will be published by Harvard University Press in May 2026. Learn more about Yuppies here or pre-order it here.

 

Yuppies is based on my dissertation, which was awarded the Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History from the Business History Conference. Articles and papers drawn from my dissertation have received the Raymond A. Mohl Award from the Urban History Association and the Catherine Bauer Wurster Prize from the Society of American City and Regional Planning History. In  2019-20, I was a National Fellow at the Jefferson Scholars Foundation at the University of Virginia. In 2021-2022, I held an NEH-Hagley Fellowship on Business, Culture, and Society at the Hagley Library. My research has also been supported by grants from the American Historical Association, Columbia University, the Business History Conference, and the Graduate Fund for Excellence at Temple University.

 

My writing has been published in the Journal of American History, Enterprise & Society, Journal of Urban History, The Washington Post, Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies, Utne Reader, the Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, Gotham, Public Seminar, as well as in a number of edited collections. I am also co-host of Who Makes Cents? A History of Capitalism Podcast. A complete list of my publications and presentations can be found on my CV. 

 

I graduated from Vassar College in 2008. In 2013, I received an MA from Temple University, and in 2015, I received an MA from Princeton University. In 2020, I received my PhD from Princeton. 

 

When I'm not working, I can be found playing guitar with my band or hanging at the playground with my kids, June and Ruth.