Current CoursesFall 2013 (tentative)Winter 2014 (tentative)
- History 174B
Wealth and Poverty in America (Civil War to World War II) - History 292B
Foundations of U.S. History, 1846 to 1917 Department FieldsAnnouncementsThere are no announcements Current Graduate Students |
19th and 20th Century U.S.
Professor
Ph.D., Northwestern University
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I work on how experience and knowledge as well as partisanship and ideology affect the making of public policy in the U.S. I look particularly at how theories of how the U.S. and world capitalist economies work got into public policy discourses,the media, and popular political narratives between the mid-19th and the late-20th centuries.
Research and Teaching Interests- 19th and 20th Century U. S.
- History of Public Policy
- U. S. Public Philosophy and Political Culture
- History of Social Thought
- Political Economy
Current Projects- Income Inequality as a Product of Regulation: “Labor Market Reform” in Comparative Perspective
- The Public and Its Limits: Statism and Anti-Statism in the American Political Tradition, 1880-1950
- Gilded Age Laissez Faire: Myth, Reality, or Rhetoric
Selected Publications- "Ideas, Interdependencies, Governance Structures,and National Political Cultures: Norbert Elias's Work as a Window on U.S. History"
Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes: Figurational Approaches to American Culture, eds. Christa Buschendorf, Astrid Franke, Johannes Voelz (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011)
- Advocacy and Objectivity: A Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social Science 1865-1905, with new introduction
(1975; Transaction Press edition, 2010)
- “From ‘State Interference’ to the ‘Return to the Market’: The Rhetoric of Economic Regulation From the Old Gilded Age to the New"
Government and Markets, eds. Edward Balleisen & David Moss (Cambridge University Press, 2009), 92-142,
- "Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Social Investigation in History and Theory"
Modern Intellectual History 6:1 (2009):147-70
- “Structure and Virtue in United States Political Economy”
Journal of the History of Economic Thought 27:1 (2005): 1-27
- “Social Scientists and the State”
Intellectuals and Political Life, eds. Leon Fink et al. (Cornell University Press, 1996) pp. 145-81
- “The Republican Tradition and the New Liberalism: Social Investigation, State Building, and Social Learning in the Gilded Age”
The State and Social Investigation in Britain and the United States, eds. Michael J. Lacey and Mary O. Furner (Cambridge University Press, 1993) pp.171-241
- "Knowing Capitalism: Public Investigation of the Labor Question in the Long Progressive Era”
The State and Economic Knowledge: The American and British Experience, eds. Mary O. Furner and Barry Supple ( Cambridge University Press, 1990) pp. 241-86
Undergraduate and Graduate Courses- History 17B: The American People (Sectional Crisis through Progressivism)
- History 165: America in the Gilded Age, 1876 to 1900
- History 166A: United States in the Twentieth Century (1900 to 1929)
- History 166B: United States in the Twentieth Century (1930 to 1959)
- History 166P: Proseminar in Twentieth-Century United States History
- History 174B: Wealth and Poverty in America (Civil War to World War II)
- History 174DR: Directed Readings on Wealth and Poverty
- History 200AM: Historical Literature: America
- History 201AM: Social Thought and the Making of the Modern U.S. Order
- History 201AM: Capitalism, Crisis, and Regulation
- History 218C: Readings Seminar: Introduction to Policy History
- History 272A-B: Research Seminar in American Political and Intellectual History
- History 291A-B: Research Seminar in Knowledge and Policy, Institutions and Power
- History 292B: Foundations of U.S. History, 1846-1917
Honors and Professional Activities- Columbia Law School Conference on Dividing the Transnational Regulatory Space, 2011
- James Tobin Project Conference on Government and Markets: Ferment in a TIme of Crisis, 2009
- James Tobin Project Conference on Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Economic Regulation, 2008
- Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, 2007
- Distinguished Lecturer, History of Economics Society, 2005
- NEH Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, 1988-89
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellow, 1982
Current and Former Graduate Students- John Baranski, Associate Professor of History, Fort Lewis College
- David Schuster, Associate Professor of History, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne
- Joshua Ashenmiller, Associate Professor of History, Fullerton College
- Mark Hendrickson, Assistant Professor of History, University of California, San Diego
- Carol Feinberg, Summer Session Instructor, Department of History, UCSB
- Jill Margaret Jensen, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations, Pennsylvania State University
- Dustin Walker, ABD, Washington, DC dissertation research
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