Charles Euchner
Lecturer in English
Charlie Euchner is a researcher and writer, with a focus on American history, politics, and
culture. His latest book, The Rules of Activism, will be published by Polity Press in 2025. He is
also completing The Reckoning, a narrative work on Woodrow Wilson’s failed 1919 campaign
for the League of Nations.
Euchner, who holds a B.A. from Vanderbilt University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the Johns
Hopkins University, has written books on the civil rights movement (Nobody Turn Me
Around), baseball (The Last Nine Innings), urban politics and policy (Playing the
Field and Urban Politics Reconsidered, with Steve McGovern), and writing (The Elements of
Writing). He has also contributed to a wide range of newspapers and magazines.
Prior to teaching writing at Yale and Columbia, he taught political science at the College of
the Holy Cross and St. Mary’s College of Maryland. He was the founding director of Harvard’s
Rappaport Institute, special projects editor at New America, research fellow at the Center for
an Urban Future, and case writer and editor at the Yale School of Management.