DANIEL T. RODGERS Department of History, Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 Tel: 609-258-0958 Fax: 609-258-5326 [email protected]
ACADEMIC POSITIONS Princeton University, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Emeritus Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, 1998-2013, Professor, l986-98; Associate Professor, l980-86. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of History, Instructor to Associate Professor, 1971-80.
EDUCATION PhD (history), Yale University, 1973 AB-ScB in Engineering, summa cum laude, Brown University, 1965
BOOKS As a City on a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon (Princeton University Press, fall 2018) Chinese translation forthcoming Cultures in Motion, ed. Daniel T. Rodgers, Bhavani Raman, and Helmut Reimitz (Princeton University Press, 2014) Age of Fracture (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011) Bancroft Prize John G. Cawelti Award of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Chinese translation forthcoming Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (Harvard University Press, 1998). Ellis W. Hawley Prize of the Organization of American Historians George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association German translation: Atlantiküberquerungen: Die Politik der Sozialreform, 1870-1945 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2010) Chinese translation, 2011 Contested Truths: Keywords in American Politics since Independence (Basic Books, 1987; Harvard University Press, 1998). The Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920 (University of Chicago Press, 1978). New edition 2014. Frederick Jackson Turner Prize of the Organization of American Historians
ARTICLES AND ESSAYS “The Distinctiveness of Environmental History,” in A Field on Fire: Perspectives on Environmental History and Its Future Inspired by Donald Worster, ed. Mark Hersey and Ted Steinberg, forthcoming. “The Uses and Abuses of ‘Neoliberalism’,” Dissent, winter 2018 “Age of Fracture and After,” Eurozine (www.eurozein.com), 2 October 2018. “The Social-Ethnography Tradition,” Modern American History 1:1 (March 2018): 67-70. Rodgers, Daniel T., with Christopher Sheil, 'Whither the ‘Social’ in Society?’ Age of Fracture', Evatt Journal, Vol., 16, No. 3, July 2017 http://evatt.org.au/papers/whither-social-society.html “Paths in the Social History of Ideas,” The Futures of Atlantic Intellectual History, ed. Joel Isaac, James T. Kloppenberg, Michael O’Brien, and Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, Oxford University Press, 2017. 2
“When Truth Becomes a Commodity,” Chronicle of Higher Education Review, Jan. 15, 2017 “What Next for Liberalism?” Symposium: America After Trump, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, no. 43 (winter 2017) “Afterword,” The Familiar Made Strange, ed. Brooke Blower and Mark Philip Bradley (Cornell University Press, 2015. “Capitalism and Politics in the Progressive Era and in Ours,” Journal of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era 13: 3 (July 2014), 379-86. “Contesting Equality,” Raritan Review 33:4 (spring 2014), 19-33. “Bearing Tales: Networks and Narratives in Social Policy Transfer,” Journal of Global History 9:2 (2014), 301-13. “The Transnational Nature of the Progressive Era,” History Now 33 (winter 2012). “The Presidential Debate of October 16, 2012, AHA Perspectives on History, October 2012 “The Progressive Era to the New Era, 1900-1929,” Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/progressive-era-new-era-1900-1929 Response to a roundtable on Age of Fracture, Il mestiere di storico 4:1 (2012), 63-67. “America in an Age of Fracture: A Forum,” Historically Speaking, April 2011. “Economics in an Age of Fracture,” Chronicle Review, Jan. 14, 2011. “Public Policy Transfers,” Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History, ed. Akira Iriye and Pierre Yves Saunier (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). “Competing Modernities: The United States, Germany, and the Networks of Transnational Progressive Politics,” Europa trifft Amerika, ed. Andreas Etges (LIT Verlag, Berlin, 2008). “Rights Consciousness in American History” (revised), in The Nature of Rights at the American Founding and Beyond, ed. Barry Alan Shain (University of Virginia Press, 2007). “Worlds of Reform,” OAH Magazine of History, 20 (2006), 49-54. Reprinted in America on the World Stage: A Global Approach to U.S. History, ed. Gary W. Reichard and Ted Dickson (Organization of American Historians, 2008). “Living without Labels,” Law and History Review, 24 (2006), 173-78. “American Exceptionalism Revisited,” Raritan Review 24 (fall 2004), 21-47. “The Traditions of Liberalism,” in Questions of Tradition, ed. Mark Salber Phillips and Gordon Schochet (University of Toronto Press, 2004). “Dallo spazia al movimento [Not Space but Motion],” Contemporanea, 7 (2004), 98-106. “An Age of Social Politics,” in Rethinking American History in a Global Age, ed. Thomas Bender (University of California Press, 2002. “Reply,” in “Borrowing Policy: A Dialogue on Atlantic Crossings,” Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal 21 (winter 2000), 431-43. “Stories, Games, and Deliberative Democracy,” Journal of American History 88 (2001): 444-52. “Response,” symposium on Atlantic Crossings, in Historical Research / Historische Sozialforschung 25 (2000), 122-26. “Exceptionalism,” in Imagined Histories: American Historians Interpret the Past, ed. Anthony Molho and Gordon S. Wood (Princeton University Press 1998). “Thinking in Verbs,” Intellectual History Newsletter 18 (1996): 21-23. “The Tramp and the Policy Doctor: The Social Sciences at Princeton,” Princeton University Library Chronicle 58 (1996): 57-90. "Why Is Poverty a Public Problem? Rhetorics of Obligation in American Social Policy," in The Mixed Economy of Social Welfare: Public/Private Relations in England, Germany and the United States from the 1870’s to the 1930’s, ed. Michael B. Katz and Christoph Sachsse (Nomos, 1996). 3
"Freedom" and "Republicanism," in A Companion to American Thought, ed. Richard Fox and James Kloppenberg (Blackwell, 1995). "Rights Consciousness in American History," in The Bill of Rights in Modern America: After 200 Years, ed. David J. Bodenhamer and James W. Ely, Jr. (Indiana University Press, 1993). Revised version in The Nature of Rights at the American Founding and Beyond, ed. Barry Alan Shain (University of Virginia Press, 2007). "Republicanism: The Career of a Concept," Journal of American History 79 (1992), 11-38. (with Sean Wilentz) "Languages of Power in the United States," in Language, History and Class, ed. P. J. Corfield (Basil Blackwell, 1991). "Of Prophets and Prophecy" in Reconsidering Tocqueville's Democracy in America, ed. A. S. Eisenstadt (Rutgers University Press, 1988). "Keywords: A Reply," Journal of the History of Ideas 49 (1988), 669-76. "Socializing Middle-Class Children: Fables, Institutions, and Work Values in Nineteenth-Century America," Journal of Social History 13 (1980), 354-67. "Regionalism and the Burdens of Progress" in Region, Race, and Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of C. Vann Woodward, ed. J. Morgan Kousser and James M. McPherson (Oxford University Press, 1982). (with David B. Tyack) "Work, Youth, and Schooling: Mapping Critical Research Areas" in Work, Youth, and Schooling: Historical Perspectives on Vocationalism in American Education, ed. Harvey Kantor and David B. Tyack (Stanford University Press, 1982). "In Search of Progressivism," Reviews in American History 10 (1982), 113-32. "Tradition, Modernity and the American Industrial Worker: Reflections and Critique," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 7 (1977), 655-81.
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS (in addition to book prizes) Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, Fellow, 2015-16 President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, Princeton University, 2012 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2008- Behrman Award, Princeton University, 2008 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 2007-8 Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions, Cambridge University, 2003-4 Senior Fulbright Lecturer, Japan, summer 2002 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Fellowship, 1999-2000 Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Fellowship, 1991-92 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1987-88 Senior Fulbright Lecturer, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, 1983-84 Phi Beta Kappa, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1979 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1978 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1976
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, 2016-17 Director, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, 2008-12 Member, Visiting Committee, History Department, Harvard University, 2003-4; chair, 2009-12 Member, history department external review committee, Northwestern University, 2003 Member, Editorial Board, American Historical Review, 2002-5 Member Editorial Board, Modern Intellectual History, 2002-12 4
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Policy History, 2001-5 Chair, Merle Curti Award Committee in American Intellectual History, 1999-2001 Chair, history section, Review Committee in the Social Sciences, Brown University, 2000 Member, Editorial Board, Journal of American History, 1995-98 Chair, External Review Committee, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania, 1995 Disciplinary Advisory Committee for Fulbright Scholar Awards in American History, 1992-95 Chair, Department of History, Princeton University, l988-95, 1997-98 Regents' Review Committee, Department of History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1988
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