PETER B. LEVY, PhD

I was born and raised in Northern California and earned a B.A. in history from the University of California at Berkeley in 1978 and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1986.   While completing my degree and for a couple of years afterwards, I taught at Rutgers University, Newark, including a course on the civil rights movement.  In 1989, I accepted a full-time position at York College, where I taught for over 30 years.  Among the most fulfilling things I have ever done are work on the congressional campaign of one of my former colleagues, Phil Avillo, a disabled Vietnam Veteran and early opponent of U.S. foreign policy in Iraq.   Since retiring from teaching, I have spent much of my time writing plays.  In my spare time I  play tennis, travel, and attend local theater productions.  I am a frustrated vegetable gardener, guitar player, and baseball fan, due to deer, tone deafness, and weak pitching, in that order.