Jerome Krase è “Murray Koppelman” professore emerito del Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY). Era presidente dell’American Italian Historical Association (AIHA, 1975–84) e del Brooklyn College Center for Italian American Studies (1993–97). È autore o coautore di: Self and Community in the City (1982); The Melting Pot and Beyond (1988); Ethnicity and Machine Politics (1992); Italian Americans in a Multicultural Society (1994); Industry, Labor, Technologies and the Italian American Communities (1997); The Review of Italian American Studies (2000); Race and Ethnicity in New York City (2005); Italian American Politics (2005); Ethnic Landscapes in an Urban World (2006); The Staten Island Italian American Experience (2007); Italian Americans Before the Mass Migration (2007); e Seeing Cities Change (2012). Nel 2006 era “Italians of Staten Island” visiting scholar nel Wagner College (2006). Gli sono stati conferiti il Premio del Rettore della Sapienza – Università di Roma, e il Premio “Monsignor Gino Baroni” della rivista «Italian Americana». Attivista e studioso, nel 1977 ha co–fondato l’American Italian Coalition of Organizations of New York City.
