• Professor and Coordinator of Graduate Studies, American Culture Studies
• Professor, History
• Professor, Social Thought & Analysis

Brick

• Ph.D. in American culture at University of Michigan
• M.A. in American culture at University of Michigan
• B.A. in English at University of Michigan

Professional Experience

* Professor of History, Washington University, St. Louis, July 2000-

* Associate Professor of History, Washington University, St. Louis, July 1996-June 2000

* Chair, Graduate Committee, Department of History, Washington University, 1998-2002 (on leave, 1999-2000)

* Graduate Director, American Culture Studies Program, Washington University, July 2000-

* Associate Professor of History, University of Oregon, September 1992-June 1996

* Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History, University of Oregon, 1992-1993

* Assistant Professor of History, University of Oregon, September 1987-June 1992

* Faculty Coordinator, American Studies, University of Oregon, 1990-1991

* William Rainey Harper Instructor in College Social Sciences, University of Chicago, October 1985-September 1987

* Professional writer (freelance journalism and technical writing), Brooklyn, New York, October 1983-August 1985

* Adjunct Instructor of History, Marymount College, Tarrytown, New York, Fall 1983

* Teaching Assistant, English Department, University of Michigan, September 1977-May 1980

* Research Assistant, English Department, University of Michigan, May-September 1977

* Concentration Advisor (American Studies), Counselling Center, Univ. of Michigan, September 1975-May 1976

Current Activities

* Beyond the Bourgeoisie: The Postcapitalist Vision and American Social Liberalism in the Twentieth Century (Cornell University Press, in progress), concerning currents in American social science from the 1910s to the 1970s that imagined modern society evolving beyond the boundaries of capitalism to a new social economy.

* Series Editor, New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History, Johns Hopkins University Press, July 2001-

* Co-editor, American Thought and Culture series, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000-

* Co-editor, Intellectual History Newsletter, 1997-2001

Teaching and Research Interests

* American intellectual history

* 20th century U.S. intellectual, cultural, social, and political history

* History of social theory and the social sciences

* History of labor, socialist, and radical movements

* Literary theory and historical methodology

Fellowships

* Fellow, Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University, 1999-2000

* Summer Research Fellowship, Univ. of Oregon, Summers 1991, 1994

* Fellow, Oregon Humanities Center, Univ. of Oregon, Fall 1990

* Participant, "A University for Everyone," Ford Foundation grant for curriculum integration, 1989-1991

* Andrew Mellon Faculty Fellow, History of American Civilization, Harvard University, July 1987-June 1988

* Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1986

* Rackham Dissertation Grant, Horace Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan, 1981-1982

* Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, Horace Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan, 1980-1981

Awards, Honors

* Outstanding Faculty Member, Women's Panhellenic Association of Washington University, 1999

* Verne Moore Lecturer in History, University of Rochester, Spring 1998

* Nominated by Univ. of Oregon for 1994 NEH Summer Stipend, September 1993

* Phi Beta Kappa, April 1975

* James B. Angell Scholar, University of Michigan, April 1975

* Jule and Avery Hopwood Creative Writing Award, University of Michigan, Major Essay category, April 1975

Publications

Books

*Age of Contradiction: American Thought and Culture in the 1960s, paperback edition (Cornell University Press, 2000)

* Age of Contradiction: American Thought and Culture in the 1960s (Twayne Publishers, 1998). Twayne's American Thought and Culture Series, Lewis Perry, General Editor. Reviewed:

American Historical Review, October 1999

Journal of American History, September 1999

History: Review of New Books, Summer 1999

Choice, February 1999

* Daniel Bell and the Decline of Intellectual Radicalism: Social Theory and Political Reconciliation in the 1940s (University of Wisconsin Press, 1986). Reviewed:

Canadian Review of American Studies, Spring 1988

Reviews in American History, March 1988

Journal of American Studies, August 1987

Contemporary Sociology, vol. 16, no. 5

American Historical Review, June 1987

American Journal of Sociology, 1987, no. 5

Religious Studies Review, January 1987

Journal of American History, December 1986

Choice, November 1986 and May 1987

(selected as "outstanding academic book")

Times Literary Supplement, November 21, 1986

Articles and Review Essays

* "The Postcapitalist Vision in Twentieth-Century American Social Thought," in Imagining Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in 20th Century America, ed. Nelson Lichtenstein (University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming).

* "Sociology," pp. 431-37, in Dictionary of American History, vol. 7, ed. Stanley Kutler (NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003).

* "Talcott Parsons's 'Shift Away from Economics,' 1937-1946," Journal of American History 87 (September 2000): 490-514.

* "Society," pp. 917-39, in Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century, vol. II, eds. Stanley Kutler, Robert Dallek, David Hollinger, and Thomas McGraw (NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996).

* "The Reformist Dimension of Talcott Parsons's Early Social Theory," in The Culture of the Market: Historical Essays, eds. by Thomas L. Haskell and Richard F. Teichgraeber III (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

* "Optimism of the Mind: Imagining Post-Industrial Society in the 1960s and 1970s," American Quarterly 44 (September 1992): 348-80.

* "Discipline, Craft and Culture: The Politics of Holistic Thought," Michigan Quarterly Review 31 (Winter 1992): 128-42.

* "How Scholars Play with the Poor," Science for the People, 10, no. 4 (July/August 1978), pp. 18-22.

Short Articles

* "Talcott Parsons," in American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty (Oxford University Press, 1999).

* "Revisiting the Communist Manifesto, II. History and Culture," Against the Current, January-February 1998, pp. 9-10.

* "Daniel Bell" (pp. 70-71), "Ideology" (pp. 326-28), and "Talcott Parsons" (pp. 518-19), in A Companion to American Thought, eds. Richard Fox and James Kloppenberg (Blackwell Publishers, 1995).

Longer Book Reviews

* "Veblen Defended," Reviews in American History 22 (March 1994): 125-32.

* "Why Is There No Liberalism in the United States," Against the Current, July-August 1991, pp. 45-46.

* "The Participatory Years," Against the Current, Sept.-Oct. 1988, pp. 23-25.

* "Heilbroner's View of Capitalism," Against the Current, May-June 1987, pp. 35-6.

* Review of Revolution and the 20th-Century Novel, by Paul Siegel, Minnesota Review, Fall 1980, pp. 142-5.

Shorter Book Reviews

* Review of Confronting American Labor: The New Left Dilemma, by Jeffrey W. Coker, American Historical Review (forthcoming).

* Review of Intellectuals in Action: The Origins of the New Left and Radical Liberalism, 1945-1970, by Kevin Mattson, Journal of American History 90 (June 2003): 305-6.

* Review of Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs? America's Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929-1981 by Amy Sue Bix, Business History Review 74 (Winter 2000): 747-50.

* Review of A Fiction of the Past: The Sixties in American History, by Dominick Cavallo, and The Seventies Now: Culture as Surveillance, by Stephen Paul Miller, Journal of American History 87 (September 2000): 757-58.

* Review of The Politics of Authenticity, by Doug Rossinow, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (forthcoming).

* Review of Liberalism and Its Discontents, by Alan Brinkley, Journal of American History 104 (March 1999): 172-73.

* Review of A Dreamer's Paradise Lost: Louis C. Fraina/Lewis Corey (1892-1953) and The Decline of Radicalism in the United States, by Paul Buhle, American Historical Review 102 (April 1997): 548-9.

* Review of Independent Intellectuals in the United States, 1910-1945, by Steven Biel, Journal of Interdisciplinary History 25 (Autumn 1994): 342-44.

* Review of Fundamental Development of the Social Sciences: Rockefeller Philanthropy and the United States Social Science Research Council, by Donald Fisher, Journal of American History 81 (September 1994): 770-71.

* Review of Love's Story Told: A Life of Henry A. Murray, by Forrest G. Robinson, Journal of American History 80 (December 1993): 1135-6.

* Review of Academia's Golden Age: Universities in Massachusetts, 1945-1970, by Richard M. Freeland, History of Education Quarterly 33 (Fall 1993): 444-6.

* Review of Joseph Schumpeter: Scholar, Teacher & Politician, by Eduard Marz, Journal of American History 79 (March 1993): 1668.

* Review of The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism, by Cornel West, Journal of American History 79 (September 1992): 687.

* Review of Critical Crossings: The New York Intellectuals in Postwar America, by Neil Jumonville, Journal of American History 78 (December 1991): 1147.

* Review of Writing Realism: Howells, James and Norris in the Mass Market, by Daniel Borus, Colgate Scene, March 1990, p. 17.

* Review of Talcott Parsons and the Capitalist Nation-State, by William Buxton, Isis 79 (1988): 115-16.

* Review of Will Herberg: From Right to Right, by Harry Ausmus, Journal of American History 75 (Sept. 1988): 662-3.

* Review of The Nationalization of the Social Sciences, eds. Samuel Klausner and Victor Lidz, Journal of American History 74 (Sept. 1987): 554-5.

Papers and Conference Participation

* "The Moral State and Postcapitalist Visions of the 1960s" (keynote address), Conference on "The Moral Republic: Social Regulation, Cultural Politics and the State in the United States," David Bruce Centre for American Studies, Keele University, Staffordshire, U.K., September 10-13, 2003.

* "The Postcapitalist Vision in Twentieth-Century American Social Thought" (keynote address), Conference on "Capitalism and Its Culture: Rethinking Mid-Twentieth Century American Social Thought, University of California—Santa Barbara, February 28, 2003.

* Comment, "The Changing Nature of American Jewish Identity," symposium on Jewish Experiences of America: The Twentieth Century, Washington University, April 7, 2002.

* "Soviet Studies and the Intellectual History of the 1950s" (invited), Conference on "The History of Soviet Studies: A Conversation between Generations," Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D. C., October 19, 2000.

* Commentator, Panel on "New Ways of Knowing: Rethinking Locations of Knowledge in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American History," American Historical Association, Chicago, Ill., January 8, 2000.

* Chair, "Constructing a Consumers' Interest: Consumerism, State-Building, and Economic Policymaking in the Twentieth-Century United States," Journal of Policy History Conference, St. Louis, May 29, 1999.

* "The Appeal of the Abstract and the Concrete in Postwar American Intellectual Life," Conference on the Aesthetics of Abstraction: Beyond the Canvas, Washington University Gallery of Art, January 30, 1999.

* Chair and Commentator, "Reconfiguring Culture: Anthropology and the Humanities," Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, Ill., November 21, 1998.

* "The Promise of Postindustrialism: Society, Politics, and Ideas in the United States during the 1960s," University of Rochester, April 3, 1998 (invited)

* Commentator, Panel on "Citizenship-as-Standing in Twentieth-Century America," Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, San Francisco, Calif., April 17, 1997.

* "Talcott Parsons and the 'Shift Away from Economics' in American Social Thought 1928-1948," Washington University in St. Louis, November 20, 1995.

* Commentator, Panel on "Social Class in American Social Science, 1870-1950," Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, Ill., January 8, 1995.

* "Class and Status in the Early Work of Erving Goffman," Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association--Pacific Coast Branch, Fullerton, Calif., August 11, 1994.

* "Inventing Post-Industrial Society: Liberal and New Left Social Theory in the 1960s," Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, New Orleans, November 2, 1990.

* "Consciousness and Community in the Work of Talcott Parsons," Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, St. Louis, Missouri, April 7, 1989.

* "Gender Dynamics in Parsons's Conception of the Professions," Mellon Fellows colloquium, Harvard University, March 22, 1988.

* "Talcott Parsons and the Heritage of Progressive Reform," Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., December 28, 1987.

* "Mass Culture and the Possibility of a Rational Society in the Theory of Daniel Bell." Fourth International Conference on the Comparative, Historical and Critical Analysis of Bureaucracy, sponsored by the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institut, Zurich. Simon Fraser University, Sept. 2-6, 1985.

* "The Ideological Emergence of New Left Political Thought, 1939-1965." Program in American Culture Colloquium, University of Michigan, December 11, 1980.

* "The Michigan Writing Program and the Politics of Language." Third Annual Midwest Marxist Scholars Conference, University of Cincinnati, March 9, 1979.

Courses Taught

* Introduction to American History (survey)

* Introduction to American Culture Studies (graduate)

* United States in the 20th Century (survey)

* American Intellectual and Cultural History (from colonial encounter to the present)

* Modern America, 1877-1929; 1929 to the present

* American Politics and the Problem of Liberalism

* History of Modern Social Theory

* History of American Radicalism

* American Thought and Culture in the 1960s

* Thorstein Veblen and His America

* Protests of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s

* Marxist Intellectual Life in the United States

* Race and Equality in American Culture

* Social History of the Great Depression

* Self, Culture and Society (University of Chicago):

* The Social Organization of Capitalist Production

* Ritual and Symbol in Social Life

* Person, Time, and Gender

* Introductory Composition

* Intermediate Exposition

Department Service

* Advisory Committee, Department of History, Washington University in St. Louis, 2002-03, 2000-01, 1998-99

* Chair, American Urban History search committee, Department of History, Washington University, 2000-01

* Chair, American Culture and Environment search committee, Department of History, Washington University, 1998-99

* Graduate Committee, Department of History, Washington University in St. Louis, 1996-97, 1997-98

* Agenda Committee, Department of History, Washington University, 1997-98

* Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee, Department of History, University of Oregon, 1993-94; co-chair, 1995-96

* Advisory Committee, Department of History, University of Oregon, 1995-96, 1992-93, 1989-90

* Modern European Intellectual History search committee, Department of History, University of Oregon, 1993-94

* Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Department of History, University of Oregon, 1991-92

* Committee on Dual-Career Couples, Department of History, University of Oregon, 1991

* Chair, Course-load planning committee, Department of History, University of Oregon, 1990

* Planning Committee, Department of History, University of Oregon, Spring 1990

* Graduate Committee, Department of History, University of Oregon,1988-89

* Graduate Student Representative, Executive Committee, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan, 1976-78

* Task Force on Minorities, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan, 1976-78

* English Department Steward, Graduate Employees Organization, University of Michigan, 1978-79

University Service

* Faculty Council (elected), 2002-2005

* Executive Committee, Social Thought and Analysis program, 1998-

* Social Thought and Analysis search committee, 2000-01

* University Judicial Board, Washington University, 1999-2001

* Graduate Council, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Washington University, 1998-

* Luce Professor search committee, Washington University, 1998-99

* Nominee for Faculty Council, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Washington University, Spring 1998

* Adviser, Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship Program, Washington University, 1996-97

* Faculty Senator, University Senate, University of Oregon, 1992-94

* Executive Committee, University Senate, University of Oregon, 1993-94

* Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee, Honors College, University of Oregon, 1993-94

* Humanities Center Summer Research Fellowship Review Panel, University of Oregon, 1992-93

* Board of faculty advisers, Labor Education and Research Center, University of Oregon, 1992-93

* Faculty search committee, Labor Education and Research Center, University of Oregon, 1993

Service to Profession

* Series Editor, New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History, Johns Hopkins University Press, July 2001-

* Co-editor, American Thought and Culture series, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000-

* Co-editor, Intellectual History Newsletter, 1997-2001

* Manuscript review for Cambridge University Press, Cornell University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, University of California Press, University of Massachusetts Press, University of Wisconsin Press, Ohio State University Press, Monthly Review Press, Westview Press, Worth Publishers, Journal of American History, American Quarterly, American Journal of Sociology, The Historian, Polity, and other journals, 1985-present

* Editorial Committee, Radical History Review, 1985

Outreach

* Consultant to International Education Consortium (U.S. History programs), Cooperating School Districts, St. Louis, Missouri, 2003-

* Chair, "The Korean War and the Cold War in America," May 9, 2003, panel in conference, "The Coldest War in the Cold War," Washington University, St. Louis.

* The Making of U.S. Foreign Policy from the Spanish-American War to the New Bush Doctrine, talk to Amnesty International teach-in, Washington University, April 19, 2003

* American Labor History, lecture to Teamsters local 688 stewards conference, St. Louis, Missouri, April 10, 2002

* Steering committee, September 11 Coalition for Justice and Peace, 2001

* Guest speaker, film showing of Arguing the World (historical documentary on the New York intellectuals), Webster University, February 15, 1998

* History adviser, St. Louis high school program in senior-year independent research, 1996-97.

* Statement on Multicultural Education, Press conference, Erb Memorial Union, University of Oregon, May 3, 1993.

* Principal organizer, May Day Colloquium: Labor, Education and Intellectual Life, a day-long conference at the University of Oregon, May 1, 1992.

* Workshop, Historical Metaphors and the Gulf War, Portland State University, March 16, 1991.

* Workshop, Historical Metaphors in the Gulf War Debate, University of Oregon teach-in, January 24, 1991.

* Radio interview on U.S. foreign policy in the 1990s, Oregon News Line (University of Oregon News Bureau), December 22, 1989.

* Publicity for Hyde Park Committee on Central America, Chicago, IL, 1986.

* Co-author, with Heidi Gottfried and Julie Greene, "Views on the Domestication of Women's Studies," Michigan Daily, April 15, 1980.

* Principal organizer, Mexico: Contours of Crisis, November 7-9, 1978, University of Michigan (conference of scholars and activists from Mexico and the United States on political repression in Mexico).

* Steering Committee, Ann Arbor Committee for Human Rights in Latin America, 1977-80.

Membership in Professional Associations

* American Historical Association

* American Sociological Association

* American Studies Association

* Forum for History of Human Science

* Mid-Atlantic Radical Historians Organization

* Organization of American Historians

* Social Science History Association