KEVIN M. SCHULTZ (708) 203-2883 [email protected] CURRENT APPOINTMENTS Professor of History, Catholic Studies, and Religious Studies University of Illinois at Chicago President, Society for US Intellectual History (Acting) Chair, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago ACADEMIC BACKGROUND Ph.D. History, UC Berkeley, 2005 B.A. History, Vanderbilt University, 1997 PUBLICATIONS Books Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship that Shaped the 1960s (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015) —a book about the odd relationship between William F. Buckley, Jr. and Norman Mailer, detailing not only their surprisingly intertwined lives but also illuminating the ideological divisions of the 1960s —winner of the 2016 Robert F. Lucid Award, an Amazon.com #1 New Release in American History, excerpted in Salon.com and reviewed widely, including in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, the New York Review of Books Blog, Esquire, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, the Times of London, Dallas Morning News, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Kirkus (starred), BookList (starred), and was named one of Village Voice’s “Fifteen Books You Need to Read in 2015” Tri-Faith America: How Postwar Catholics and Jews Held America to its Protestant Promise (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011; paperback 2012). —a book charting the decline of the idea that the United States was a “Christian nation” and the subsequent rise of an alternate national image, that of “Tri-Faith America.” HIST (Boston, Mass.: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 2018, fifth edition [first ed. 2010]). —a single-authored college-level textbook of American history, now in its fifth edition Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters “1963: Baldwin’s annus mirabilis,” in Quentin Miller ed., James Baldwin in Context (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press). Kevin M. Schultz – CV – p.2 “Freedom’s Just Another Word: The Intellectual Trajectories of the 1960s,” in Ray Haberski, Jr., and Andrew Hartman, eds., No Things but in Ideas: United States Intellectual History (forthcoming from Cornell University Press). “The Blessings of American Pluralism, and Those Who Rail Against It,” in Darren Dochuk and Matthew A. Sutton, eds., Faith in the New Millennium: The Future of Religion and American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. 269-85. “The Irony of the Postwar Religious Revival: Catholics, Jews, and the Creation of the Naked Public Square,” in Kathleen Donohue, ed., Liberty and Justice for All?: Rethinking Politics in Cold War America (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2012), 213- 242. “Everywhere and Nowhere: Religion in the Historiography of the Modern America,” co-authored with Paul Harvey, The Journal of the American Academy of Religion (March 2010), 129-62. “Godlessness and the Scopes Trial,” in Charles T. Mathewes and Christopher McKnight Nichols, eds., Prophesies of Godlessness: The Intellectual Tradition of Secularization in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 137-53. “The FEPC and the Legacy of the Labor-Based Civil Rights Movement of the 1940s,” Labor History (February 2008), 71-92. ****Winner of Labor History’s Best Article by a Scholar Within Five Years of PhD Completion Prize, 2008. “‘Favoritism Cannot be Tolerated’: Challenging de facto Protestantism in America’s Public Schools and Advocating a Neutral State” American Quarterly (September 2007), pp. 565-591. “Religion as Identity in Postwar America: The Story of the Last Serious Attempt to Put a Question on Religion in the U.S. Census,” Journal of American History (September 2006), pp. 359-84 ****Highlighted as a “notable article” in Wilson Quarterly (Winter 2007), pp. 82-3. Essays “The Strange and Enduring Friendship of Buckley and Mailer, National Review Online (June 6, 2015), http://www.nationalreview.com/article/419395/strange-and- enduring-friendship-buckley-and-mailer-kevin-m-schultz “Satire is Dead, Long Live Satire!” Design Observer (June 1, 2015), http://designobserver.com/feature/satire-is-dead/38893/ “The last great ‘Mad Men’ Debate: Who Won the Sixties, the Hippies or Ronald Reagan?” Salon.com (May 18, 2015), http://www.salon.com/2015/05/18/the_last_great_mad_men_debate_who_won_the_60s_the _hippies_or_ronald_reagan/ Kevin M. Schultz – CV – p.3 “The Return of Christian America?” The Huffington Post (April 11, 2011), http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-m-schultz/the-return-of-christian-america_b_846893.html “The Waspish Hetero-Patriarchy: Locating Power in Recent American History,” Historically Speaking (November 2010), 8-11. “Everywhere and Nowhere,” co-authored with Paul Harvey, Inside Higher Ed (February 18, 2010), http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2010/02/18/schultz “Citizens, Subjects, and In Between: What Does Citizenship Mean in the USA?,” The Hedgehog Review: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Culture (Fall 2008), 40-53. “Secularism: A Bibliographic Essay,” The Hedgehog Review: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Culture (Spring and Summer 2006), pp. 170-77. “Protestant-Catholic-Jew, Then and Now,” First Things: The Journal of Religion and Public Life (January 2006), pp. 23-27. “Social Darwinism,” The Dictionary of American History, 3rd ed., ed., Stanley I. Kutler (Simon and Schuster, 2003), pp. 411-12. Book/Film Reviews A review of Andrew Preston, Bruce J. Schulman, and Julian E. Zelizer, eds., Faithful Republic: Religion and Politics in Modern America, in Journal of Church and State (August 2017), pp. 525-27. A review of Neil J. Young, We Gather Together: The Religious Right and the Problem of Interfaith Politics, in the American Historical Review (June 2016), pp. 977-78. A review of Mark A. Smith, Secular Faith: Why Culture Trumps Religion in American Politics, in the Chicago Tribune (September 13, 2015), pp. 16-17. “ ‘Best of Enemies’ Provides a View of Gore Vidal, William F. Buckley and the 1960s From the Bathroom,” a review Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon, Best of Enemies: A Documentary, in In These Times (September 9, 2015) http://inthesetimes.com/article/18389/best-of-enemies-review-gore-vidal-william-f- buckley-kevin-schultz. A review of Andrew Hartman, A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars, in The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture (8:1, August 2015), pp. 104-6. A review of George M. Marsden, The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief, in The Christian Century (April 30, 2014), 40-2. A review of David Sehat, The Myth of American Religious Freedom in Politics and Religion, in Religion and Politics 5:2 (August 2012), 463-67. Kevin M. Schultz – CV – p.4 “God’s Experts,” a review of Randall J. Stephens and Karl W. Giberson’s The Anointed: Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age in Wilson Quarterly (Autumn 2011), 102-03. “Age of Fracture,” by Daniel T. Rodgers, in The Hedgehog Review (July 2011), 100-02. “The ‘Conservative’ Turn?: a review of Michael Kimmage’s The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism,” for the U.S. Intellectual History blog (February 22, 2011), http://us-intellectual-history.blogspot.com/2011/02/book-review-schultz-on- kimmages.html#more “Bowling with God,” a review of Robert Putnam and David Campbell’s American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, in Wilson Quarterly (January 2011), 109-10. ***Also appeared as an entry for the Religion in American History blog (January 22, 2011), http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2011/01/latest-religious-data.html ****Highlighted as a Powell’s Books “review-a-day” (March 1, 2011), http://www.powells.com/review/2011_03_01 “A Catholic Thing, or Something More?: A Response to Slavica Jakelic’s Collectivistic Religions: Religion, Choice and Identity in Late Modernity,” for The Martin Marty Center For The Advanced Study Of Religion’s Religion and Culture Web Forum (November 3, 2010), http://divinity.uchicago.edu/martycenter/publications/webforum/ “Spiritual, yes; but Religious? a review of Edward J. Blum’s W.E.B. Du Bois, American Prophet,” in Historically Speaking (September 2009), 37-38. “Marilyn Monroe and the Problem of Jewish Studies,” a review of Lila Corwin Berman, Speaking of Jews: Rabbis, Intellectuals and the Creation of a Public Identity, for the Religion in American History blog (June 13, 2009), http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2009/07/teaching-american-religious-pluralism.html “Liberalism: The ‘Least Worst Option’ in a World of Religious Pluralism,” a review of Lucas Swaine, The Liberal Conscience: Politics and Principle in a World of Religious Pluralism, for H-Ideas, the H-Net list-serve for Intellectual History (February 2007), http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=12873 “Democracy, Catholic-style,” a review of Jay P. Corrin, Catholic Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democracy, for H-Catholic, the H-Net list-serve for the history of Catholicism (February 2004), http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=8894 “Collision Courses,” a review of Hugh Davis Graham, Collision Course: The Strange Convergence of Affirmative Action and Immigration Policy in America, in History Matters! (June 2002), p. 5. The index of In The Shadow of Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women From 1917 to the Second World War, eds., Shelia Fitzpatrick and Yuri Slezkine (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000). Kevin M. Schultz – CV – p.5 “Civic Environmentalism in a Bedroom Community: a Case Study,” Park City Magazine (Summer 1999). Hundreds of articles as staff reporter and editor for The Park Record newspaper (Park City, Utah), 1997-1999.