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Curriculum Vitae ROBERT B. WESTBROOK Department of History 330 Capen Road University of Rochester Brockport, New York 14420 Rochester, New York 14627 (585) 637-8725 (585) 275-9349 or 275-2053 [email protected]@gmail.com [email protected] PERSONAL Born 6 September 1950, Austin, Minnesota. Married (Shamra Westbrook); three children; two grandchildren. EDUCATION Stanford University, Stanford, California, Ph.D., History, 1981. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, B.A., 1972, summa cum laude and honors with exceptional distinction in history. TEACHING AND RESEARCH FIELDS Modern American history (1865-Present), American and European cultural and intellectual history (1600- Present). FACULTY POSITIONS Joseph F. Cunningham Professor of History Emeritus, University of Rochester, 2021- Joseph F. Cunningham Professor of History, University of Rochester, 2011-2020. Professor of History, University of Rochester, 1995-2011. Associate Professor of History, University of Rochester, 1991-1995. Assistant Professor of History, University of Rochester, 1986-1991. Assistant Professor of American Studies and History, Yale University, 1980-1986. Lecturer in American Studies and History, Yale University, 1978-80. Lecturer in American Studies and History, Scripps College, Claremont, California, 1978. COURSES Liberal America, 1929-1973 Postindustrial America, 1973-Present Westbrook/CV 2 American Thought, 1600-1865 American Thought, 1865-1990 Twentieth-Century European Thought Cultural History of the United States, 1790-1890 Cultural History of the United States, 1890-1990 America and World War II America and the Holocaust Topics in Nineteenth-Century American Cultural History Topics in Twentieth-Century American Cultural History History as Social Criticism Global America, 1865-Present Global Detection American Culture in the Great Depression and World War II Modernity and Modernism: Selected Topics (Liberalism; Nietzsche and His Children; French Lessons; Weimar Culture; God after the Death of God) Cultural History and Its Critics Music-Made America: Bruce Springsteen American Movies in Their Time: The Golden Age (1930-46) American Movies in Their Time: The Silver Age (1968-80) For a listing of the thirty doctoral dissertations I have advised, see https://cascade.its.rochester.edu:8443/renderfile/ffa426298097df1901f7b41b99b2b188/faculty/westbrook_robert/ assets/pdf/PhD%20Students%201992-2014.pdf PUBLICATIONS Books: Democratic Hope: Pragmatism and the Politics of Truth (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005). Why We Fought: Forging American Obligations in World War II (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2004). John Dewey and American Democracy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991). Chinese translation, 2009; Italian translation 2010. Books (Edited): In Face of the Facts: Moral Inquiry in American Scholarship, ed. with Richard Fox (New York: Woodrow Wilson Center/Cambridge University Press, 1997). Books in Progress: Rethinking the Good War: World War II and the American Moral Imagination (Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming). Lost in a Haunted Wood: American Culture in 1939. Beyond Left and Right: Selected Essays and Reviews of Christopher Lasch (editor). Westbrook/CV 3 Christopher Lasch: Letters (editor). Articles: "Waste People" Raritan (forthcoming). "Inequality and the American Dream," Christian Century (four parts, forthcoming). “Patria,” Christian Century (forthcoming). "Wild Orchids" in David Rondel, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Rorty (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021), 303-322. "Sally Mann and the Burden of Southern History," Raritan 40/4 (Spring 2021): 1-44.. "Creative Democracy--The Task Still Before Us," in Gregory Kaebnick et al, eds., Democracy in Crisis: Civic Learning and the Reconstruction of Common Purpose, Hastings Center Report, 51 (2021): S29-S35. “Christopher Lasch: Death and Dying in a Front Porch Republic,” Local Culture 2/2 (2020): 34-37. “A Tribute to Christopher Lasch, The Undergraduate Teacher,” Local Culture 2/2 (2020): 59-60. "Socialism and the Democracy Deficit: The Quest for Radical Equality in the American Grain," The New Republic (June 2019): 30-36. "Roughing It," Reviews in American History 47 (2019): 148-158. "This Land Is Your Land: American Cultural Nationalism, 1929-1941" in Ichiro Takayoshi, ed., American Literature in Transition, 1929-1941 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 198-228. "Virtuous Reality: The Politics of Character in a Post-Liberal Age," The Baffler 33 (Winter 2016): 18-27. "Populist Fever," Christian Century (8 June 2016): 22-27. "George Herbert Mead and the Promise of Pragmatist Democracy" in Hans Joas and Daniel Huebner, eds., The Timeliness of G.H. Mead (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015), 82-91. "Dwight Macdonald: Democracy and Discrimination," Raritan 35 (Summer 2015): 57-80. "A Tale of Two Dicks" in R. del Castillo, A.M. Faerna, and Larry Hickman, eds., Confines of Democracy: Essays on the Philosophy of Richard Bernstein (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2015), 3-24. "MLK's Manifesto: 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' at 50," Christian Century (17 April 2013): 22-27. "Pragmatists and Politics: The Richards Bernstein and Rorty," Raritan 32 (2013): 104-122. "History and Moral Inquiry," Modern Intellectual History 9 (2012): 389-408. "Just Gimme Some Truth: A Pragmatist Proposal" in Jeremy Elkins and Andrew Norris, eds., Truth and Democratic Politics (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), pp. 279-284. Westbrook/CV 4 "The Liberal Agony," Christian Century (20 September 2011): 22-31. "Foreword" to Thomas Fallace, Dewey and the Dilemma of Race: An Intellectual History, 1895-1922 (New York: Teachers College Press, 2011), vii-viii. "Isolationism Reconsidered," Raritan 30 (Fall 2010): 4-36. "The Making of a Democratic Philosopher: The Intellectual Development of John Dewey" in Molly Cochran, ed., The Cambridge Companion to John Dewey (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 13-33. "In Memoriam: Verne Moore," Rochester History (2010). "Pragmatism and War" in Chad Kautzer and Eduardo Mendieta, eds., Pragmatism, Nation, and Race: Community in the Age of Empire (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009), pp. 242-253. "Response to Symposium Participants" in "Symposium on Robert Westbrook's Democratic Hope: Pragmatism and the Politics of Truth," Contemporary Pragmatism 4 (December 2007): 29-34. "Bourne Over Baghdad," Raritan 27 (2007): 104-117. "An Uncommon Faith: Pragmatism and Religious Experience" in Stuart Rosenbaum, ed., Pragmatism and Religion (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003), pp. 190-205. "Essential Reading: Nixon Agonistes" in Jean-Christophe Agnew and Roy Rosenzweig, eds., Companion to American History Since 1945 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), pp. 540-544. "Ma and Pa Kettle Go to the AHA," Journal of Women's History 13 (2001): 166-168. "John Dewey und die Logik der Demokratie" in Hans Joas, ed., Philosophie der Demokratie: Beiträge zum Werk von John Dewey (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2000), pp. 341-361. "Pragmatism and Democracy: Reconstructing the Logic of John Dewey's Faith" in Morris Dickstein, ed., The Revival of Pragmatism (Durham: Duke University Press, 1998), pp. 128-140. (Revised, expanded, and reprinted in Democratic Hope.) "Liberalism and the Left," Radical History Review 71 (Spring 1998): 46-51. "The Counter-Intelligentsia," Linguafranca (November 1996): 65-71. "In the Mirror of the Enemy: Japanese Political Culture and the Peculiarities of American Patriotism in World War II" in John Bodnar, ed., Bonds of Affection: Americans Define Their Patriotism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996), pp. 211-230. (Revised and reprinted in Why We Fought.) "Democratic Faith: A Response to Michael Eldridge," Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 32 (1996): 973-982. "Wishful Thinking: On the Convergence of Pragmatism and Liberal Education" in Robert Orrill, ed., The Condition of American Liberal Education (New York: College Board, 1995), pp. 226-232. Westbrook/CV 5 "Public Schooling and American Democracy" in Roger Soder, ed., Democracy, Education, and Schooling (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1995), pp. 125-150. (Revised and reprinted in Democratic Hope.) "In Retrospect: Christopher Lasch, The New Radicalism, and the Vocation of Intellectuals," Reviews in American History 23 (1995): 176-191. "On the Private Life of a Public Philosopher: John Dewey in Love," Teachers College Record 96 (1994): 183- 197. (Revised and reprinted in Democratic Hope.) "Profiles: John Dewey," Prospects (UNESCO Quarterly Review of Education) 23 (1993): 277-291. "Doing Dewey: An Autobiographical Fragment," Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 29 (1993): 493- 511. "An Innocent Abroad?: John Dewey and International Politics," Ethics and International Affairs 7 (1993): 203- 221. "Fighting for the American Family: Private Interests and Political Obligation in World War II" in Richard Wightman Fox and T.J. Jackson Lears, eds., The Power of Culture: Critical Essays in American History (Chica- go: University of Chicago Press, 1993), pp. 194-221. (Revised and reprinted in Why We Fought.) "Democratic Evasions: Cornel West and the Politics of Pragmatism," Praxis International 13 (1993): 1-13. (Revised, expanded, and reprinted in Democratic Hope.) "Schools for Industrial Democrats: The Social Origins of John Dewey's Philosophy of Education," American Journal of Education 100 (1992): 401-419. (Revised, expanded, and reprinted in Democratic Hope.) "The Dewey School and Workplace Democracy," Pathways 8 (May 1992): 16-18. "Dewey Done," Intellectual History
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