James T. Kloppenberg | |
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| Born | (1951-06-23) June 23, 1951 |
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| Spouse | Mary |
James T. Kloppenberg (born June 23, 1951, in Denver) is an American historian, and Charles Warren Professor of American History, at Harvard University.[1]
Life
He graduated from Dartmouth College summa cum laude, and from Stanford University with an M.A. and Ph.D. in 1980. He has held the Pitt professorship at the University of Cambridge, has taught at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris,[2] and has taught at Brandeis University.[3]
Kloppenberg is Catholic[4]. He and his wife Mary live in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Awards
- 1978–1980 Danforth Fellowship
- 1978–1979 Whiting Fellowship
- 1991 Guggenheim Fellowship[5]
- 1982–1983 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
- 1987 Merle Curti Award
- 1999–2000 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
Works
Chapters
- Ronald G. Walters, ed. (1997). "Why History Matters to Political Theory". Scientific authority & twentieth-century America. JHU Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-5390-6.
- John Pettegrew, ed. (2000). "Pragmatism: An Old Name for Some New Ways of Thinking". A pragmatist's progress?: Richard Rorty and American intellectual history. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8476-9062-6.
- Bart Schultz, ed. (2002). "Rethinking Tradition: Sidgwick and the philosophy of the via media". Essays on Henry Sidgwick. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-89304-6.
- Melvyn Stokes, ed. (2002). "Intellectual History, Democracy and the Culture of Irony". The state of U.S. history. Berg Publishers. ISBN 978-1-85973-502-2.
- Jack P. Greene; J. R. Pole, eds. (2003). "Virtue". A Companion to the American Revolution. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-1674-9.
- Meg Jacobs; William J. Novak; Julian E. Zelizer, eds. (2003). "From Hartz to Tocqueville". The democratic experiment: new directions in American political history. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-11377-7.
- Robert Laurence Moore; Maurizio Vaudagna, eds. (2003). "American Democracy and the Welfare State". The American century in Europe. Cornell University Press. p. 195. ISBN 978-0-8014-4075-5.
- David E. Barclay; Elisabeth Glaser-Schmidt, eds. (2003). "The Reciprocal Visions of German and American Intellectuals". Transatlantic Images and Perceptions: Germany and America Since 1776. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-53442-0.
- William M. Shea; Peter A. Huff, eds. (2003). "Knowledge and Belief in American Public Life". Knowledge and Belief in America: Enlightenment Traditions and Modern Religious Thought. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-53328-7.
- David A. Hollinger, ed. (2006). "The Place of Value in a Culture of Facts". The humanities and the dynamics of inclusion since World War II. JHU Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8390-3.
Bibliography
- Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870-1920. Oxford University Press. 1986. ISBN 978-0-19-505304-3.
- Richard Wightman Fox; James T. Kloppenberg, eds. (1995). A Companion to American Thought. Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-20656-9.
- The Virtues of Liberalism. Oxford University Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-19-514056-9.
- Reading Obama: Dreams, Hopes, and the American Political Tradition (2010 Princeton University Press). ISBN 0-691-14746-9[6]
- The Worlds of American Intellectual History (2016 Oxford University Press) with Joel Isaac, Michael O'Brien, and Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
- Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought (2016 Oxford University Press)
References
- "History of American Civilization: James Kloppenberg". www.fas.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on November 27, 2001.
- "James Kloppenberg". Archived from the original on March 16, 2010. Retrieved January 25, 2010.
- James T. Kloppenberg (Autumn 1995). "Institutionalism, Rational Choice, and Historical Analysis". Polity. 28 (1): 125–128. doi:10.2307/3235193. JSTOR 3235193. S2CID 147572317.
- "Oral History Interview with James T. Kloppenberg '73". Dartmouth Vietnam Project. Retrieved May 17, 2026.
- "James T. Kloppenberg - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". www.gf.org. Archived from the original on June 22, 2011.
- Cohen, Patricia, "In Writings of Obama, a Philosophy Is Unearthed", The New York Times, October 27, 2010 (October 28, 2010 p. C1 NY ed.). Retrieved 2010-10-27.
External links
- "James's Pragmatism and American Social Thought, 1907-2007", Harvard Divinity School, September 25, 2007 Archived February 1, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- Interview by Charlie Rose re: Obama book, transcript or video, November 10, 2010.