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| | 61 | Name: | Dr. Thomas P. Hughes | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania; Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | | Year Elected: | 2003 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1923 | | | Death Date: | February 3, 2014 | | | | | | |
Thomas Hughes received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1953. He served on the faculty of Washington and Lee University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Johns Hopkins University, and Southern Methodist University before joining the University of Pennsylvania faculty in 1973 where he became Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of History and Sociology of Science. He had also been Distinguished Visiting Professor of the History of Technology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Thomas Hughes was considered the dean of American historians of technology. His versatility and style appear in Elmer Sperry, Inventor and Engineer (1971), a definitive biography that incorporates the technical detail required for the life of an engineer; Networks of Power, Electification of Western Society, 1880-1930 (1983), a comparative history of German and American electric power systems conceived as integrations of technical, managerial and financial networks; and American Genesis, A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970 (1989, 1990), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a portrayal of the heroic century of American invention for a wide readership. Dr. Hughes' work on systems and his book on cultural history show the same breadth and mastery. He served his profession and the public as a teacher, as a member of several national committees, and as a creator of television documentaries.
Dr. Hughes' other books include (with A. Hughes) Lewis Memford: Public Intellectual (1990); Rescuing Prometheus (Managing the Creation of Large Technological Systems) (1997); (with A. Hughes) Systems, Experts, and Computers (2000); and Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (2004).
He was the recipient of the Leonardo da Vinci Medal (1984), the John Desmond Bernal Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science (1990), and a two-time recepient of the Dexter Prize of Society for the History of Technology (for Elmer Sperry and Networks of Power). He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and held honorary degrees from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and from Northwestern University. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2003. Thomas Hughes died February 3, 2014, at the age of 90, in Charlottesville, Virginia. | |
| 62 | Name: | Dr. Lynn Hunt | | | Institution: | University of California, Los Angeles | | | Year Elected: | 2003 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1945 | | | | | | |
Lynn Hunt is an extraordinarily gifted, imaginative, and tough-minded scholar, the author of a boldly conceived set of eight interlocking books on the French Revolution, gender history, cultural history and historiography. Her books have been translated into French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Portuguese, Chinese and Polish. Her best known book, The Family Romance of the French Revolution, shows how the revolutionaries destroyed the paternal image of King Louis XVI by pornographic attacks on Queen Marie Antoniette and then, having liberated themselves from the royal family, created a new model of domesticity. Her latest works are Inventing Human Rights: A History (2007), the question of time and history writing, Measuring Time: Making History (2008), and early 18th century views of the world's religions, Bernard Picart and the First Global Vision of Religion (with M. Jacob and W. Mijnhardt, 2010). Her current research projects include a study of cultural history in the global era and another of the French Revolution in global context.
Lynn Hunt has served as president of the American Historical Association and is currently Distinguished Professor of History and Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at the University of California, Los Angeles (1998-). She holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University (1973) and has also taught at the University of California, Berkeley (1974-87) and the University of Pennsylvania (1987-98). | |
| 63 | Name: | Dr. Margaret C. Jacob | | | Institution: | University of California, Los Angeles | | | Year Elected: | 2002 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1943 | | | | | | |
Margaret Jacob received her Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1968. She was an assistant professor of history and languages and literature at the University of South Florida, Tampa, and a lecturer in European history at the University of East Anglia, UK, before becoming professor of history at Baruch College, City University of New York, in1971. She became dean of the Eugene Lang College and professor of history in the university in 1985 at the New School for Social Research. In 1996 she moved to the University of Pennsylvania as professor of history and of the history of science. She is currently Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. A leading international authority on the interaction of science, commerce, and technology and how they contributed to the industrial revolution of the early 19th century. Dr. Jacob is the author of many books and innumerable articles. She works with English, French, Belgian, and Dutch sources. A former president of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, she is also a prominent academic leader. At UCLA, she has spearheaded a pathbreaking research project bringing scientists and humanists together to study chronic pain. Dr. Jacob's publications include The Newtonians and the English Revolution, 1689-1720 (1976); The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans (1981); The Cultural Meaning of the Scientific Revolution (1988); Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth Century Europe (1991); (with Lynn Hunt and Joyce Appleby) Telling the Truth about History (1994); (with Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs) Newton and the Culture of Newtonianism (1995); Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West (1997); The Enlightenment: A Brief History (2001); and (with Larry Stewart) Practical Matter, The Impact of Newton's Science from 1687 to 1851 (2004). She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2002 and in the same year awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Utrecht. | |
| 64 | Name: | Dr. Martin Jay | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 2019 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1944 | | | | | | |
Martin Jay is currently Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1971 before beginning his career at Berkeley.
Martin Jay is his generation’s most respected and influential scholar of European intellectual history. His fifteen books are read not only by historians, but by artists, museum curators, literary scholars, and philosophers. Jay combines a deep understanding of theoretical questions – about vision, truth, totality, and experience – with an extraordinary ability to interpret in accessible language the answers to these questions articulated by French and German thinkers, whose prose many readers find obscure. Jay’s scholarship endures: a book of more than forty years ago, now translated into fourteen languages, remains the standard work on the Frankfurt School. He has trained more than thirty-five doctoral students, who now hold faculty appointments in many of the leading universities in the United States and Europe. He has welcomed scores of post-doctoral fellows to Berkeley. He regularly delivers invited lectures on every continent.
His awards include the Herbert Baxter Adams Award of the American Historical Association in 1973 and the Scientific Prize for Distinction in Art History, the Cultural Sciences or the Human Sciences of the Aby-Warburg Foundation, Hamburg, in 2003. He is a member of the American Academy of Literary Studies (1986) and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1996). He is the author of: The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-50, 1973; Marxism and Totality: The Adventures of a Concept from Lukács to Habermas, 1984; Adorno, 1984; Permanent Exiles: Essays on the Intellectual Migration from Germany to America, 1985; Fin-de-Siècle Socialism and Other Essays, 1988; Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought, 1993; Force Fields: Between Intellectual History and Cultural Critique, 1993; Cultural Semantics: Keywords of Our Time, 1998; Refractions of Violence, 2003; Songs of Experience: Modern European and American Variations on a Universal Theme, 2004; The Virtues of Mendacity: On Lying in Politics, 2010; Reason After its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory, 2016. Martin Jay was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019. | |
| 65 | Name: | Dr. Michael B. Katz | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 2013 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1939 | | | Death Date: | August 23, 2014 | | | | | | |
Michael B. Katz is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History and Research Associate in the Population Studies Center at the History Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Educated at Harvard, he has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a resident fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies (Princeton), the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; he also has held a fellowship from the Open Society Institute. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Education, National Academy of Social Insurance, and the Society of American Historians. In 1999, he received a Senior Scholar Award - a lifetime achievement award - from the Spencer Foundation. From 1989-1995, he served as archivist to the Social Science Research Council's Committee for Research on the Urban Underclass and in 1992 was a member of the Task Force to Reduce Welfare Dependency appointed by the Governor of Pennsylvania. From 1991-1995 and 2011-2012, he was Chair of the History Department at the University of Pennsylvania; from 1983-1996 he directed or co-directed the University’s undergraduate Urban Studies Program; in 1994, he founded the graduate certificate program in Urban Studies, which he co-directs. He is a past-president of the History of Education Society and of the Urban History Association. In 2007, he was given the Provost’s Award for Distinguished Graduate Student Teaching and Mentoring.
His work has focused on three major areas: the history of American education (The Irony of Early School Reform [1968, reprinted with a new introduction, 2001]; Class, Bureaucracy, and Schools: The Illusion of Educational Change in America [1971, expanded edition 1975]; Reconstructing American Education [1987]); the history of urban social structure and family organization (The People of Hamilton, Canada West: Family and Class in a Mid-Nineteenth Century City [1975, winner Albert C. Corey Prize, American and Canadian Historical Associations]; The Social Organization of Early Industrial Capitalism [1981]); and with Mark J. Stern, One Nation Divisible: What America Was and What It Is Becoming (2006; paperback, 2008); and the history of social welfare and poverty (Poverty and Policy in American History [1983]; In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America [1986, expanded edition 1996]; The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare [1990, a finalist for the American Sociological Association's Distinguished Book Award]; The "Underclass" Debate: Views from History [1993]; Improving Poor People: the Welfare State, the "Underclass," and Urban Schools as History [1995]); and The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State (Metropolitan/Holt, 2001; Owl Books, 2002; updated edition, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008); and with Christoph Sachsse, he has edited The Mixed Economy of Social Welfare: England, Germany, and the United States from the 1870s to the 1930s (1996). With Michelle Fine and Elaine Simon, he is author of the essay, "Poking Around: Outsiders View Chicago School Reform" - based on five years of periodic interviews and observations (Teachers College Record, Fall 1997). With Thomas Sugrue, he edited, W.E.B. Du Bois, Race, and the City: "The Philadelphia Negro" And Its Legacy (1998. An article co-authored with Mark J. Stern and Jamie J. Fader, "The New African American Inequality," appeared in the June 2005 Journal of American History and was awarded the Binkley-Stephenson Prize from the Organization of American Historians for the best article published in the journal in 2005. His presidential address to the Urban History Association, "Why Don’t American Cities Burn Very Often?" was published in the January 2008 Journal of Urban History. He currently works on immigration and has co-authored a report on immigration to Greater Philadelphia with the Brookings Institution. His co-authored article, "Immigration and the New Metropolitan Geography" won the prize for the best article in the Journal of Urban Affairs in 2010. His most recent book, Why Don’t American Cities Burn? (2012) was published by Penn Press in fall 2011. With Mike Rose, he is the author of the forthcoming [June 2013] Public Education Under Siege. Also forthcoming is, The Underserving Poor: America’s Enduring Confrontation with Poverty [October 2013].
His research has been supported by the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Canada Council, Behavioral Science Research Institute York University, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Education, National Endowment for the Humanities, Social Sciences Research Council, Rockefeller Foundation, Spencer Foundation, the Research Foundation University of Pennsylvania, the Penn Institute for Urban Research, and the Russell Sage Foundation. Michael Katz was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2013. | |
| 66 | Name: | Dr. Donald R. Kelley | | | Institution: | Rutgers University | | | Year Elected: | 1995 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1931 | | | | | | |
Donald R. Kelley was born in Elgin, Illinois in 1931 of working-class parents. He worked himself for a time at the Elgin Watch Co., then went to Harvard University (class of 1953). He served in the army as an MP in Germany (1953-55) before going on to graduate school at Columbia University (Ph.D., 1962). Since his undergraduate days his main interest has been European intellectual history, beginning with early modern France, on which he has written several books. He has since extended his research to a larger chronological and international scope, reinforced by a 20-year editorship of the Journal of the History of Ideas and associated international conferences funded by the journal. He has worked in three interrelated areas of study, all touched on in his first book on "language, law, and history in the French Renaissance"; that is, western historical thought and writing; continental law and political thought since antiquity; and the history and role of language. Most recently he has returned to early interests in the history of history, completing a trilogy in western historiography from antiquity to the present and surveys both of intellectual and cultural history. Dr. Kelley has taught at Southern Illinois University, SUNY Binghamton, the University of Rochester, Harvard, and Rutgers University, where he holds the title of James Westfall Thompson Professor of History Emeritus. He has received a number of awards, including a Fulbright and two Guggenheim fellowships and three Institute for Advanced Study fellowships as well as membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He is married to Bonnie Smith, also a historian; they have three children. | |
| 67 | Name: | Prof. George F. Kennan | | | Institution: | Institute for Advanced Study | | | Year Elected: | 1952 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1904 | | | Death Date: | March 17, 2005 | | | | |
| 68 | Name: | Dr. Paul M. Kennedy | | | Institution: | Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 1991 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1945 | | | | | | |
Internationally known for his writings and commentaries on global political, economic and strategic issues, Paul M. Kennedy is currently J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History at Yale University. Dr. Kennedy earned his B.S. at Newcastle University and his doctorate at the University of Oxford and is a former fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University and the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Bonn. Books such as The Samoan Tangle (1974), The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery (1976) and The Realities Behind Diplomacy: Background Influences on British External Policy (1981) reveal his mastery of diplomatic and military history, as well as his analytical precision, narrative skill, and courage in dealing with large subjects. Furthermore, he has employed comparative techniques to study the relationship between economic and military power in The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1988). Dr. Kennedy has the rare ability to use history to illuminate contemporary problems. He is on the editorial board of numerous scholarly journals and writes for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic Monthly, and many foreign-language newspapers and magazines. Dr. Kennedy also helped draft a report for an international commission on "The United Nations in its Second Half-Century," which was prepared for the 50th anniversary United Nations debate on how to improve the world organization, and he has co-edited two large collections of papers relating to contemporary strategic issues: The Pivotal States: A New Framework for U.S. Policy in the Developing World and From War to Peace: Altered Strategic Landscapes in the Twentieth Century. His latest book is entitled Preparing for the Twenty-First Century. In 2014 he was awarded the Hattendorf Prize for Distinguished Original Research in Maritime History by the US Naval War College. | |
| 69 | Name: | Dr. David M. Kennedy | | | Institution: | Stanford University | | | Year Elected: | 2001 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1941 | | | | | | |
David M. Kennedy, the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus at Stanford University, is a native of Seattle and a 1963 Stanford graduate. He received his Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 1968. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1967. Professor Kennedy teaches courses in the history of the twentieth-century United States, American political and social thought, American foreign policy, American literature, and the comparative development of democracy in Europe and America. Graduating seniors have three times elected him as Class Day speaker, and in 1988 he was presented with the Dean's Award for distinguished Teaching. He has also received the Stanford Alumni Associations' Richard W. Lyman Award for faculty service and the Hoagland Prize for Excellence in undergraduate teaching. Reflecting his interdisciplinary training in American Studies, which combined the fields of history, literature, and economics, Professor Kennedy's scholarship is notable for its integration of economic and cultural analysis with social and political history. His 1970 book, Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger, embraced the medical, legal, political, and religious dimensions of the subject and helped to pioneer the emerging field of women's history. Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1980) used the history of American involvement in World War I to analyze the American political system, economy, and culture in the early twentieth century. Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (1999) recounts the history of the American people in the two great crises of the Great Depression and World War II. With Thomas A. Bailey and Lizabeth Cohen, Dr. Kennedy is also the co-author of a textbook in American History, The American Pageant, now in its fourteenth edition. Birth Control in America was honored with both the John Gilmary Shea Prize in 1970 and the Bancroft Prize in 1971. Over Here was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1981. Freedom From Fear was a Main Selection of the Book-of- the-Month Club and the History Book Club, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and winner of the Pulitzer and Francis Parkman Prizes, as well as the English-Speaking Union's Ambassador's Prize, and the Commonwealth Club of California's California Book Award Gold Medal, all in 2000. Professor Kennedy has been a visiting professor at the University of Florence, Italy, and has lectured on American history in Italy, Germany, Turkey, Scandinavia, Canada, Britain, Australia, and Ireland. He has served as chair of the Stanford History Department, as director of Stanford's Program in International Relations, as co-director of the Bill Lane Center for the West, and as associate Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences. He has served on the Advisory Board for the Public Broadcasting System's "The American Experience" and has chaired the Test Development Committee for the Educational Testing Service's Advanced Placement Program in American History. He has also served as a director of the CORO Foundation, and as chair of the Board of Directors of the Stanford University Bookstore. He is also on the Board of Environmental Traveling Companions, a service organization for the handicapped. In 1995-96, he was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. He delivered the Tanner Lectures at Oxford in 2003. He is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences as well as the American Philosophical Society. In 2002 he joined the Board of the Pulitzer Prizes. | |
| 70 | Name: | Dr. Linda K. Kerber | | | Institution: | University of Iowa | | | Year Elected: | 2006 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1940 | | | | | | |
Linda K. Kerber is the May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts and Professor of History at the University of Iowa, where she is also Lecturer in the College of Law. In 2006-07 she was Harmsworth Visiting Professor in American History at Oxford University. She received her AB from Barnard College in 1960, an M.A. from New York University in 1961, a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University in 1968.
In 2006, she served as president of the American Historical Association; she served as president of the Organization of American Historians in 1996-97, and as president of the American Studies Association in 1988. In recent years she has served as Chair of the Executive Committee of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and - following her interest in strengthening academic exchange between the United States and Japan - has been a member of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, a federal agency. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Her teaching has been recognized by the Iowa Regents Award for Faculty Excellence and she was awarded the Charles Homer Haskins Prize by the American Council of Learned Societies in 2020.
In her writing and teaching Linda Kerber has emphasized the history of citizenship, gender, and authority. She is the author of No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship (1998) for which she was awarded the Littleton-Griswold Prize for the best book in U.S. legal history and the Joan Kelley Prize for the best book in women's history (both awarded by the American Historical Association). Among her other books are Toward an Intellectual History of Women (1997), Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America (1980), and Federalists in Dissent: Imagery and Ideology in Jeffersonian America (1970). She is co-editor of U.S. History As Women's History, and of the widely used anthology Women's America: Refocusing the Past (6th edition, 2004), which has been translated into Japanese. She is now at work on a history of statelessness in America. Linda Kerber has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She has served on many editorial boards and advisory committees; currently she serves as advisory editor to the "Gender and American Culture" series of the University of North Carolina Press and on the editorial boards of Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society and the Journal of Women's History. | |
| 71 | Name: | Dr. Alice Kessler-Harris | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 2012 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1941 | | | | | | |
Alice Kessler-Harris is currently the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History in Honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower at Columbia University.Born in England, she received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1968. She won the Bancroft Prize from Columbia University in 2001 and the Philip Taft Prize from Cornell University in 2001 and 2007. She is the author of: The Open Cage: An Anzia Yezierska Collection, 1979; Women Have Always Worked: A Historical Overview, 1981; Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States, 1982; A Woman's Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences, 1990; In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth Century America, 2001; and Gendering Labor History, 2007. She is a member of the American Studies Association (president, 1992); Law and Working Class History Association (president, 2008); and the Organization of American Historians (president-elect, 2009).
Alice Kessler-Harris is a pioneering historian of a labor history that embraces women as well as men and a writer who regularly engages the deep moral and political questions that have shaped American life. She is associated with devising the concept of "economic citizenship" and tracing its development through the course of the 20th century, challenging established understandings of Social Security and other federal policies that affect all citizens. Her two major books are each based on over a decade of archival research. She has written or edited nine more books and
more than 60 essays and articles, some, like "Organizing the unorganizable" (1975), "Treating the male as other" (1993), and "Coalitions of the imagination" (2004) have become classics. Kessler-Harris is unusual among social historians for her attentiveness to the arts and to literature; she played a major role in introducing the Yiddish writer Anzia Yezierskia to the American public. She is now engaged in writing a biography of Lillian Hellman, which is forthcoming in 2012. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2012. | |
| 72 | Name: | Dr. Daniel J. Kevles | | | Institution: | Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 1996 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1939 | | | | | | |
Daniel J. Kevles is the Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University. His research interests include: the interplay of science and society past and present; the history of science in America; the history of modern physics; the history of modern biology, scientific fraud and misconduct; the history of intellectual property in living organisms; the history of science, arms, and the state; and the United States since 1940. Professor Kevles received his B.A. in physics from Princeton University in 1960, trained in European history at Oxford University from 1960-61, and earned his Ph. D. in history from Princeton in 1964. Prior to joining the faculty at Yale, Dr. Kevles served as assistant, associate, full professor and J.O. and Juliette Koepfli Professor of the Humanities at the California Institute of Technology (1964-2001). His books include The Physicists (1978), a history of the American physics community; In the Name of Eugenics (1985), currently the standard text on the history of eugenics in the United States; and The Baltimore Case (1998), a study of accusations of scientific fraud. He is a coauthor of Inventing America: A History of the United States (2nd ed, 2006). A Guggenheim Fellow and winner of the National Historical Society Book Prize and the Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society, Dr. Kevles is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. His work on contemporary issues appears regularly in leading journals and newspapers. | |
| 73 | Name: | Dr. Leonard Krieger | | | Institution: | University of Chicago | | | Year Elected: | 1981 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1919 | | | Death Date: | 10/12/90 | | | | |
| 74 | Name: | Dr. Bruce Kuklick | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 2004 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1941 | | | | | | |
Bruce Kuklick is primarily an intellectual historian, although he has also written about the American presidency, the partition of Germany in 1945, and a Philadelphia baseball stadium. In two of his finest books he analyzes American intellectual life between 1880 and 1930. The Rise of American Philosophy presents a group portrait of Harvard philosophers in the golden age of Josiah Royce and William James, while Puritans in Babylon studies the cultural and institutional impact of the first American archaeological explorations of the ancient Near East. In A History of Philosophy in America, 1720-2000, which received a rave review in the Times Literary Supplement, he focuses with great acuity on the 300-year conflict between religious and secular values in American intellectual life. His more recent published work focuses on the role of academics in the political world (Intellectuals and War: From Kennan to Kissinger, 2006), and at the present time he is engaged in writing an international history of great power intervention in the Congo in 1960-61 and the assassination of Patrice Lumumba. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D., 1968) and a member of the faculty since 1972, Dr. Kuklick has served as Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of History since 1996. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2004. In 2015 he was awarded the Henry Allen Moe Prize from the American Philosophical Society for his paper "Killing Lumumba" presented at the Society’s April Meeting in 2012, and published in the June 2014 Proceedings. | |
| 75 | Name: | Dr. David S. Landes | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1982 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1924 | | | Death Date: | August 17, 2013 | | | | | | |
David Landes received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1953. He taught economics at Columbia University (1952-58) and economics and history at the University of California, Berkeley (1958-64) before returning to Harvard as a professor of history in 1964. He has taught at Harvard ever since as professor of history (1964-72), Roy B. Williams Professor of History and Politics (1972-75), Robert Walton Gallet Professor of French History (1975-81) and Coolidge Professor of History (1981-1997), Emeritus (1997-). Early on, Dr. Landes established his reputation through studies on nineteenth century French and German banking, the best known of which was a study of French investment in Egypt. He is the author of numerous books, including The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe, 1750 to the Present (1969), The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (1998), Revolution in Time (2000), and Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Great Family Businesses (2006). In addition to his distinguished career at Harvard, Dr. Landes also presided over the Economic History Association and chaired the Council on Research in Economic History. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1982. David Landes died August 17, 2013, at the age of 89 in Haverford, Pennsylvania. | |
| 76 | Name: | Dr. Thomas W. Laqueur | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 2015 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1945 | | | | | | |
Thomas Laqueur is arguably one of the most important cultural historians of his generation, worldwide. A trustee of the National Humanities Center and a regular contributor to the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement and the Guardian, his works have been translated into at least fifteen languages. Spanning two millennia of human experience his research and writing treats a remarkable range of topics and sub-fields in the history of western civilization - from literacy, education and popular politics to the scientific understanding of sex-differentiation, the origins of human rights and the cultural meanings of death. As a founding member of the editorial board of the journal Representations, he was a co-creator of what came to be called "the new cultural history" - whose hallmark is the deployment of literary and anthropological approaches to the study of major transformations in our understanding of fundamental elements of human experience, elements that had previously been viewed as beyond the scope and reach of historical investigation. | |
| 77 | Name: | Dr. Jill Lepore | | | Institution: | Harvard University; The New Yorker | | | Year Elected: | 2014 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1966 | | | | | | |
Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she writes about American history, politics, and culture. Lepore's research focuses on the histories of war and violence and of language and literacy. Much of her writing explores absences and asymmetries of evidence in the historical record. Lepore received a B.A. in English from Tufts University in 1987, an M.A. in American Culture from the University of Michigan in 1990, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 1995. She joined the Harvard History Department in 2003 and was Chair of the History and Literature Program in 2005-10, 2012, and 2014. In 2012, she was named Harvard College Professor, in recognition of distinction in undergraduate teaching. In 2014, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
She is the author of Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin (2013), Time magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of the Year, a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award for Nonfiction, and winner of the Mark Lynton Prize. Among her other books are The Story of America: Essays on Origins (2012), The Secret History of Wonder Woman (2014), These Truths: A History of the United States (2018), The Case for the Nation (2019), and If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future (2020). Jill Lepore was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2014. | |
| 78 | Name: | Dr. David Levering Lewis | | | Institution: | New York University | | | Year Elected: | 2002 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1936 | | | | | | |
David Levering Lewis received a Ph.D. at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1962. He spent the following year as Lecturer in European History at the University of Ghana. He was a professor of history at the University of the District of Columbia for ten years and at the University of California, San Diego, for three years before moving to Rutgers, The State University, in 1984. He became the Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History at New York University in 2003. David Levering Lewis has published prize-winning books in European, African, and U. S. history. All of his work is marked by meticulous scholarship, elegant prose, and interpretive distinction. Few historians of his generation have ranged so broadly. His two-volume biography of DuBois is historical scholarship and biography at its best. In addition to the two Pulitzer Prizes, Dr. Lewis has received the Bancroft Prize in History and Diplomacy; the Parkman Prize in History; the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize; a MacArthur Fellowship (1999-2004); and was one of eight 2009 National Humanities Medalists. A list of his books includes Martin Luther King: A Critical Biography (1970); Prisoners of Honor: The Dreyfus Affair (1973); A Bicentenniel History of Washington, D.C. (1976); When Harlem Was in Vogue (1981); The Harlem Renaissance: The Art of Black America (1987); The Race to Fashoda: European Colonialism, and African Resistance in the Scramble for Africa (1988); W.E.B. DuBois: Biography of a Race (1993); The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (1994); W.E.B. DuBois: A Reader (1994); W.E.B. DuBois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century (2000); and Islam and the Making of Europe, 570 to 1215 (2008). He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2002. | |
| 79 | Name: | Dr. Arthur S. Link | | | Institution: | Princeton University & University of North Carolina, Greensboro & Bowman Gray Medical School | | | Year Elected: | 1966 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1920 | | | Death Date: | 3/26/98 | | | | |
| 80 | Name: | Mr. David McCullough | | | Year Elected: | 2004 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1933 | | | Death Date: | August 7, 2022 | | | | | | |
David McCullough has been called "a master of the art of narrative history." Born in Pennsylvania in 1933, he earned his B.A. from Yale University and went on to craft a brilliant career as an author, editor, essayist, teacher and television narrator. He is the author of seven distinguished books: The Johnstown Flood (1968); The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (1972); The Path between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 (1977); Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt (1981); Brave Companions (1991); Truman (1992); John Adams (2001); and The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (2011). A master of his craft, Mr. McCullough has consistently reached a wide audience with his historical narratives on dramatic themes. Combining scrupulous scholarship with literary distinction. Mr. McCullough's writing has been recognized with multiple Pulitzer Prizes (1993, 2002), National Book Awards (1978, 1993) and Francis Parkman Prizes as well as the National Humanities Medal, among other honors. He is a member of the Society of American Historians (past president) and of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He was named a Library of Congress "Living Legend" in 2008. | |
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