Peter Eisinger (BA, University of Michigan, 1964; PhD, Political Science, Yale, 1969) is the Henry Cohen Professor at the Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy at The New School. He teaches courses in the Political Economy of the City, Poverty and Social Policy, Suburbanization, and various field-based research seminars.

Prior to his appointment he was Professor of Urban Policy and Director of the State Policy Center at Wayne State University and before that he taught for nearly three decades at the University of Wisconsin. He has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto and is currently a research affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty at Wisconsin. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Essex, Columbia University, and Brown University. In 2002 he held a Distinguished Fulbright Chair at Groningen University in the Netherlands. He is the author or co-author of seven books, and numerous articles and monographs on race, federalism and the cities, the local tourist economy, homeland security, and other urban topics.