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September 2020 DAVID A. HOLLINGER Preston Hotchkis September 2020 DAVID A. HOLLINGER Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History, Emeritus Department of History University of California, Berkeley Berkeley CA 94720 [email protected] BOOKS: [Complete list of publications farther down] Morris R. Cohen and the Scientific Ideal (MIT Press, 1975; paperback edition, MIT Press, 1978). In the American Province: Studies in the History and Historiography of Ideas (Indiana University Press, 1985; paperback edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989). Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism (Basic Books, 1995; fifth anniversary edition with new “Postscript 2000: Culture, Color, and Solidarity,” Basic Books, 2000; Tenth Anniversary Edition with new “Postscript 2005: Ethnoracial Mixture and Economic Segregation,” Basic Books, 2006. Science, Jews, and Secular Culture: Studies in Mid-Twentieth Century American Intellectual History (Princeton University Press, 1996. Reappraising Oppenheimer: Centennial Studies and Reflections (Berkeley, 2005) [co-edited with Cathryn Carson] Cosmopolitanism and Solidarity: Studies in Ethnoracial, Religious and Professional Affiliation in the United States (U. of Wisconsin Press, 2006) The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion After World War II (Baltimore, 2006) [Edited volume of 14 commissioned papers sponsored by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences] The American Intellectual Tradition: A Sourcebook (Oxford University Press, 1989; 2nd ed., 1993; 3rd. ed., 1997; 4th ed., 2001; 5th ed., 2006; 6th ed., 2011; 7th edition, 2017. ). [co-edited with Charles Capper] After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History (Princeton University Press, 2013). 1 Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America (Princeton University Press, 2017). When This Mask of Flesh is Broken: The Story of an American Protestant Family (Outskirts Press, 2019). SELECTED HONORS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS: Elected Member, American Philosophical Society Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences President (2010-2011), Organization of American Historians Elected Member, Society of American Historians Harmsworth Professor of American History, Oxford University George Sarton Lecturer, American Association for the Advancement of Science Distinguished Lecturer, History of Science Society Merle Curti Lecturer, University of Wisconsin Kutler Lecturer, University of Wisconsin John U. Nef Lecturer, University of Chicago Moffett Lecturer, Princeton University Brauer Lecturer, University of Chicago Nordlander Lecturer, Cornell University Lipset Lecturer, Stanford University Rundell Lecturer, University of Maryland Hornung Lecturer, Oregon State University Bacon Lecturer, Boston University Danforth Lecturer, Washington University in St. Louis Diggins Lecturer, City University of New York Lovejoy Lecturer, Journal of the History of Ideas Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award, University of Michigan Elected Member, Institute for Advanced Study (twice) Guggenheim Fellow Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities (twice) Visiting Professor, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium Director of Studies, EHESS, Paris Phi Beta Kappa of Northern California Distinguished Teaching Award Resident Fellow, Rockefeller Study Center, Bellagio American Quarterly Prize Plenary Lecturer, American Political Science Association Plenary Lecture, American Psychological Association Plenary Lecturer, Society for United States Intellectual History Social Science Division [UC Berkeley] Distinguished Service Award 2 SELECTEDPROFESSIONAL SERVICE: Trustee, Institute for Advanced Study Trustee, National Humanities Center Chair, Academic Freedom Committee, American Association of University Professors Advisory Board Member, Obama Oral History Project, Columbia University Senior Editor, American National Biography Review panels for American Council of Learned Societies, Rockefeller Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and National Humanities Center Miscellaneous committees of the American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, and History of Science Society Member of several committees on academic programs, Rockefeller Foundation Chair, Budget Committee, UC Berkeley Chair, Department of History, UC Berkeley Editorial Boards: Modern Intellectual History, Journal of the History of Ideas, Comparative Studies in Society and History Prize Committees: Barzun, Pulitzer, Beveridge, Parkman, Turner, and Curti. EDUCATION: B.A. 1963, La Verne College; M.A. 1965 UC Berkeley; Ph.D. 1970 UC Berkeley. EMPLOYMENT: 1969-1977 SUNY/Buffalo (Lecturer to Associate Professor); 1977-1992 University of Michigan (Professor); 1992- UC Berkeley (Professor; Chancellor’s Professor 1998-2001; Hotchkis Professor, 2001-2013; Hotchkis Professor Emeritus, 2013-) List of Publications by Year 1968 "Perry Miller and Philosophical History," History & Theory VII (1968), 189-202. 1970 Review of Marcus Cunliffe and Robin Winks, ed., Pastmasters, in History & Theory IX (1970), 390-397. 1973 "T. S. Kuhn's Theory of Science and Its Implications for History," American Historical Review LXXVIII (1973), 370-393. Reprinted in Gary Gutting, ed., Paradigms and Revolutions (Notre Dame, 1980). "The Enemy Within," Reviews in American History I (1973), 589-594. [Review of Morton White, Science and Sentiment in America, and Pragmatism and the American Mind] 3 1974 Review of Gene Wise, American Historical Explanations; Timothy Paul Donovan, Historical Thought in America; and William H. Cartwright and Richard L. Watson, eds., The Reintepretation of American History and Culture; in American Historical Review LXXX (1974), 474-476. 1975 Morris R. Cohen and the Scientific Ideal (Cambridge, Mass.; The MIT Press, 1975). "Ethnic Diversity, Cosmopolitanism, and the Emergence of the American Liberal Intelligentsia," American Quarterly XXVII (1975), 133-151. "Survival by Critical Selection in the Natural History of Art and Letters," New Literary History VI (1975), 647-652. 1976 "Call It Sleep," Reviews in American History IV (1976), 39-42. [Review of David Stannard, ed., Death in America] "Comments" on symposium, "Spencer, Scientism, and American Constitutional Law," Annals of Science XXXIII (1976), 476-480. Review of M. Teich and R. Young, eds., Changing Perspectives in the History of Science, in History & Theory XV (1976), 85-94. 1977 "Science and Anarchy: Walter Lippmann's Drift and Mastery," American Quarterly XXIX (1977), 463-475. Review of Charles L. Delzell, ed., The Future of History, in Chronicle of Higher Education, September 19, 1977, 15-16. Review of John J. McDermott, The Culture of Experience: Philosophical Essays in the American Grain, in Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society XIII (1977), 312-315. Review of Irving L. Horowitz, Ideology and Utopia in the United States, 1956-1976, in New England Quarterly L (1977), 716-718. Review of Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, The Formation of the American Scientific Community: The American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1848-1860, in Isis LXVIII (1977), 492-493. 1978 Review of Daniel J. Kevles, The Physicists, in Chronicle of Higher Education, March 20, 1978, 27-28. Review of Thomas L. Haskell, The Emergence of Professional Social Science: The American Social Science Association and the Nineteenth-Century Crisis of Authority, in American Historical Review LXXXIII (1978), 534-535. Review of Bruce Kuklick, The Rise of American Philosophy, in Journal of American History LXV (1978), 810-811. Review of Thomas S. Kuhn, The Essential Tension, in American Historical Review LXXXIII (1978), 1231-1232. 1979 4 "Historians and the Discourse of Intellectuals," in John Higham and Paul K. Conkin, eds., New Directions in American Intellectual History (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979), 42-63. "The Confidence Man," Reviews in American History VII (1979), 134-141. [Review of Allen Weinstein, Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case] 1980 "The Problem of Pragmatism in American History," Journal of American History LXVII (1980), 88-107. Reprinted in David Depew and Robert Hollinger, eds., Pragmatism: From Progressivism to Postmodernism (New York, 1995). "What is Darwinism? It is Calvinism!" Reviews in American History VIII (1980), 80-85. [Review of James R. Moore, The Post-Darwinian Controversies] Review of Robert C. Bannister, Social Darwinism: Science and Myth in Anglo-American Social Thought, in Isis (1980), 351-352. Review of Alexandra Oleson and John Voss, eds., The Organization of Knowledge in America, 1860-1920, and of Nathan Reingold, ed., The Sciences in the American Context, in Isis LXXI (1980), 478-480. 1981 "William James and the Culture of Inquiry," Michigan Quarterly Review XX (1981), 264-283. Review of Stephen J. Whitfield, Into the Dark: Hannah Arendt and Totalitarianism, in Journal of American History LXVIII (1981), 444-445. 1982 "Two Cheers for the Melting Pot," Democracy II (1982), 89-97. "The Voice of Intellectual History in the Conversation of Mankind: A Note on Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature," Newsletter of the Intellectual History Group (Spring 1982), 23-28. "American Intellectual History: Issues for the 1980s," Reviews in American History X (1982) 306-317. Reprinted in Stanley Kutler and Stanley Katz, eds., The Promise of American History (Baltimore, 1983). Review of Michael Sokal, An Education in Psychology: James McKeen Cattell's Journals and Letters from Germany and England, 1880-1888, in Annals of Science XXXIX
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