Curriculum Vitae

Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn_________________________________________________________________________________

Professor of Modern American Social, Cultural, and Intellectual History 322 Eggers Hall | Department of History | Maxwell School

Syracuse University | Syracuse, NY 13244(315)443-2700/2210 | edlasch@maxwell.syr.edu

Positions

2016-present Non-Residential Visiting Faculty Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies inCulture Foundation: In Media Res, University of Virginia

2016-present Pellicone Faculty Scholar, Department of History, Maxwell School,Syracuse University

2008-present Affiliated Faculty Member, Honor’s Program, Syracuse University2002-present Full Professor (with tenure), Department of History, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University

2001-present Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute, MaxwellSchool, Syracuse University

2012-14 Research Fellow, Religion and Innovation in Human Affairs Program, The Historical Society & John Templeton Foundation

Spring 2012 Fulbright Fellow and Senior Lecturer, Department of American Studies,University of Rome III (Dipartimento di Studi Euro-Americani,Università di Roma Tre), Rome, Italy

1998-99 Research Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,Washington, DC

1996-2001 Associate Professor, Department of History, Syracuse University1993-94 Research Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor, Whitney Humanities Center

and Program in American Studies, Yale University1990-95 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Syracuse University

Education

1990 Ph.D. in American History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst1984 M.A. in American History, University of Vermont1981 B.A. in Comparative Literature (Echols Scholar), University of Virginia,

Charlottesville

Publications

Books

Race Experts: How Racial Etiquette, Sensitivity Training, and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution (W. W. Norton, 2001). Reviewed in New York Times Book Review, Times Literary Supplement (London), London Telegraph, Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, etc.

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Race Experts: How Racial Etiquette, Sensitivity Training, and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002). Paperback version of the above.

Black Neighbors:  Race and the Limits of Reform in the American Settlement House Movement, 1890-1945 (University of North Carolina Press, 1993). Annual Book Award Winner, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.

Edited Books

Reconstructing History:  The Emergence of a New Historical Society, with Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, essays on the study of history and the historical profession (Routledge, 1999).

Women and the Common Life:  Love, Marriage, and Feminism, essays by historian Christopher Lasch (New York: W. W. Norton, 1997).

Articles, Essays, Book Review Essays, & Op Eds

Co-authored with Matthew D. Stewart, “Beyond Critique: Philip Rieff ’s Positive Vision,” Jonathan Imber, editor, The Anthem Companion to Philip Rieff (Anthem Press, UK, forthcoming).

“Individual Liberty and Civic Practices” in Donald W. Harward, ed. (Director, Bringing Theory to Practice Project), Civic Values and Civic Practices, 2013. Volume 2 of the 5-vol. Civic Series (Barry Checkoway, general ed.). http://www.bttop.org/resources/publications/civic-series.

“Hull House,” Oxford Encyclopedia of American Economic, Business, and Labor History, eds. Melvyn Dubofsky and Joseph McCartin, Oxford University Press, 2013.

“Inarticulate by Choice: The Decline of Letter Writing and the Future of the Intellectual

Past,” essay series in seven parts (July 22, July 29, August 5, August 12, August 21, August 26, September 16, 2012), Society for United States Intellectual History Blog.

“From Rome with Love,” essay series in six parts (May 6, May 13, May 21, June 3, June 17, June 25, 2012), Society for United States Intellectual History Blog. Reflections as Fulbright Fellow, republished on U.S.-Italy Fulbright website.

Selected Essays—Meditations on Modernity, Technology, & Everyday Life, Longing for the Real Blog (as founding contributor & editor with Michael Fisher and Erik Hmiel):“The Man in the Street, Unplugged” (February 12, 2012)“Bring on the Knight” (March 26, 2012)“Tourism or Narcissism?” (March 5, 2012)“Caninization" (April 15, 2012)“Lava Lips” (May 28, 2012)

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“The Unkindness of Acquaintances, or Baby’s First Heartbreak” (June 17, 2012)“The Hardest Word” (July 8, 2012)“Why Exult? Part I” (August 30, 2012)“Antiquing on an Afternoon—and Mourning” (September 26, 2012)“Why Exult? Part II” (November 19, 2012)“Why Exult? Part III” (December 14, 2012)“Perfect.” (January 28, 2013)“Looking for You in My Inbox” (February 18, 2013)“Longing to Hear I Love You?” (April 30, 2013)

Selected Blogposts, Society for United States Intellectual History Blog (as 2012-2013 regular contributor, by invitation):“New Contributor: Introducing Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn” (May 3, 2012)“From Rome with Love” (series, May 6-June 25, 2012) above“Inarticulate by Choice” (series, July 22-September 16, 2012) above“An Overheard Conversation: Loving History, a 16th Birthday, Blogging, and Youth against the Youth Culture” (September 23, 2012)“These Historians Deaths” (October 8, 2012)“Just Asking…” (November 11, 2012)“Searching for Meaningful Work” (November 18, 2012)“Dead But Not Forgotten” (December 9, 2012)“Wishing You a Resolute New Year” (January 7, 2013)“State of Universities and Civic Life, Part I” (February 10, 2013)“State of Universities and Civic Life, Part II” (February 25, 2013)“Intellectual Flourishing” (May 5, 2013)

“From Histories to Traditions: A New Paradigm of Pluralism in the Study of the Past,” Historically Speaking, 12, 1 (January 2011): 17-18. Solicited response to article by Christopher Shannon.

“From Inwardness to Intravidualism,” The Hedgehog Review 13, 1 (Spring 2011), 43-46. This review essay drew a good deal of attention, including a mention in a New York Times column by David Brooks.

“Contemporary Social Thought” in Martin Halliwell and Catherine Morley, eds., American Thought and Culture in the Twenty-first Century (NY: Edinburgh University Press, 2009), pp. 115-126.

“Introduction” to Philip Rieff ’s Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud (Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Publishing, 2007); new critical edition.

“A Stranger’s Dream: The Contemporary Socialization Crisis and the Rise of the Virtual Self,” in Wilfred M. McClay, ed., Figures in the Carpet: Finding the Human Person in the American Past (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2007), 232-262. Also excerpted in Historically Speaking.

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“300: The Use and Abuse of Greek History,” film review coauthored with Subho Basu and Craige Champion, SPIKED (United Kingdom online journal), October 3, 2007:http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/3918. Reprinted in The Classical Outlook, 85, 1 (Fall 2007), 28-32.

“The Mind of the Moralist,” on Philip Rieff ’s My Life among the Deathworks: Illustrations of the Aesthetics of Authority, in The New Republic (August 28, 2006), 27-31. Excerpted as “Philip Rieff, R.I.P.” in Insight, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, 15 (Fall 2006): 4.

“The Crisis of Secularism,” in Dolan Cummings, ed., Debating Humanism (Imprint Academic, 2006).

“Identity Crisis,” New Humanist (Great Britain) 121, 1 (January/February 2006): 20-21.

“Thinking of Shopping as Work: How Our Consumer Culture is Robbing Us of Time for the Best Things in Life,” Op ed, New York Newsday, July 24, 2005, p. A57.

“Engaged Resistance” and “Obscenity Culture,” in Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, ed., Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media, Sage Reference, 2007.

“The Personal History of America’s Great Historian,” review essay on John Hope Franklin’s Mirror to America in Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (Winter 2005/6): 108-111.

Essay on the State of American Intellectual Life, response to George Cotkin, “The Democratization of Cultural Criticism,” H-IDEAS Virtual Symposium, April 28-29, 2005.

“A Thumb on the Scale: The Case for Greater Equity in College Admissions,” review essay on William G. Bowen, Martin A. Kurzweil, and Eugene M. Tobin, Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education in Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (Summer 2005): 122-125.

“After the American Election,” solicited essay for inclusion in this published debate on the U.S. 2004 presidential election in SPIKED (United Kingdom online journal): http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/1880#.V1NFpFeMA8Y.

“Liberation Therapeutics: From Moral Renewal to Consciousness-Raising,” in Therapeutic Culture: Triumph and Defeat (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2004), 3-18.

“An American Idol,” review essay on three new biographies of Harriet Tubman, Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (Summer 2004).

“Religious Settlements,” encyclopedia entry, Journal of Chicago History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, summer 2004).

“Color Bind,” review of Debra Dickerson, The End of Blackness, The Washington Post, January 18, 2004.

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“Socializing Children in the Culture of Obscenity,” in Kids’ Stuff: Marketing Violence and Violence to America’s Children, edited by Diane Ravitch and Joseph P. Viteritti (essay collection, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003), 39-64.

“Bringing Up Baby,” Wilson Quarterly (Spring 2003), 109-112. Review essay on the history of childrearing (featured in Anne Geske, “Land of the Lost Parents,” Utne Reader, December 2003, 74).

“Das Zeitalter der Manipulation,” Novo [German magazine of politics and culture] (March-April 2003), 39. Reprint of “The Age of Manipulation” originally published in SPIKED (see below).

“The Age of Manipulation,” Arts and Letters Daily, an online service of The Chronicle of Higher Education (January 16, 2003). Reprint of the SPIKED piece below.

“A Woman’s Place is Home,” Washington Times (March 2, 2003), Book Section Front Page and B7. Review of Phyllis Schlafly’s Feminist Fantasies.

“Love That Lasts Isn’t Star-struck,” Syracuse Post-Standard (February 16, 2003). One of the reprints of “Let’s Fall in Love with Being in Love” below.

“Let’s Fall in Love with Being in Love,” Op ed on intimacy, New York Newsday November 17, 2002. This solicited piece went to the Washington Post-LA Times news service and was reprinted in several other newspapers, including the Honolulu Advertiser (November 24, 2002, Section B), Daytona Beach News-Journal, Vancouver Sun, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (November 26, 2002).

“The Age of Manipulation,” opinion piece, SPIKED (United Kingdom online journal), 12 December 2002. This piece was reprinted by The Chronicle of Higher Education and Novo (see above).

“Markets and Morals,” Review of Kevin Phillips, Wealth and Democracy, in The Washington Times (July 21, 2002).

“Loving and Leaving,” Extended Review Essay on Marriage and Divorce, on Judith Wallerstein, The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce, Nancy Cott, Public Vows, and Hendrik Hartog, Man and Wife in America, in The New Republic (May 6, 2002), 42-54.

Transcript Commentary, Symposium on Afro-America at the Start of a New Century (the work of Orlando Patterson), Salmagundi (Winter-Spring 2002), 83-238. Brief comments.

“No Bad Deeds?” Review of Elliott Turiel, The Culture of Morality, in The Washington Times (April 28, 2002).

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“Liberation Therapeutics: Consciousness-Raising, Manipulation, and the Engineering of Attitudes,” Society (March/April 2002; based on Therapeutic Society conference below, fall 2001), 7-15. Reprinted in Therapeutic Culture (above).

“Family,” in Mary Kupiec Cayton and Peter W. Williams, eds., Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History, vol. 3 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2001), 73-82.

“Crime is Rising and Our Justice System Falters,” on David Garland’s The Culture of Control, in The Washington Times (July 8, 2001), B8, B6.

“The Law and Our Favorite Tales,” on Anthony Amsterdam and Jerome Bruner, Minding the Law, in The Washington Times (November 5, 2000), B8, B7.

“How the Truth Gets Lost and Our Moral Bearings Blurred in the Culture Wars,” on James Davison Hunter, The Death of Character: Moral Education in an Age Without Good or Evil, in The Washington Times (September 24, 2000), B8, B7.

“Dionysus and Jim Crow,” on Orlando Patterson’s Rituals of Blood and Mia Bay’s The White Image in The Black Mind in The New Republic (August 28 and September 4, 2000).

“Democracy Should Not Have Losers,” A Reply to Jim Chen’s “Globalization and Its Losers,” Minnesota Journal of Global Trade 9, 2 (Summer 2000): 589-593.

“Critic Attacks Reading Scripture, Law Too Narrowly, But Misses Target,” on Vincent Crapanzano, Serving the Word, in The Washington Times (March 26, 2000).

“Mothers and Markets,” on Sonya Michel’s Children’s Interests/Mothers’ Rights, William Epstein’s Children Who Could Have Been, and Mona Harrington’s Care and Equality in The New Republic, February, 2000).

“Finding Moral Fault Line in How We Think and Act in Civil Society,” on Gertrude Himmelfarb, One Nation, Two Cultures, in The Washington Times (November 28, 1999).

“How to Behave Sensitively: Prescriptions for Interracial Conduct From the 1960s to the 1990s,” (Journal of Social History, Winter 1999).

“Democracy in the Ivory Tower? Toward the Restoration of an Intellectual Community,” in Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, eds., Reconstructing History:  The Emergence of a New Historical Society (Routledge, 1999).

“Decoding the Latest Utterance from an Oracle of Literary Theory,” on Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason, in The Washington Times (May 30, 1999).

“Looking Back on the ‘Age of Aquarius’: The 1960s Revisited,” on Arthur Marwick, The Sixties, in The Washington Times (January 10, 1999).

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“The Kindness of Strangers,” on Timothy Hasci’s Second Home:  Orphan Asylums and Poor Families in America (The New Republic, December 1998).

“There’s No Time Like the Present? Civic Life in the United States,” on Michael Schudson, The Good Citizen, in The Washington Times (September 27, 1998).

“The Closing of the American Mind? The Future of Education,” on Alan Ryan, Liberal Anxieties, in The Washington Times (August 30, 1998).

“Mugged By Reality: The Legacy of Leftism in America,” on Richard Rorty, Achieving Our Country, in The Washington Times (May 10, 1998).

“Dorothea Dix and Mental Health Reform,” in Paul Cimbala and Randall Miller, eds., American Reform and Reformers (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996), reprinted in Paul Cimbala and Randall Miller, eds., Women Against the Tide:  Women Reformers in American Society (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997).

“Progressives and the Pursuit of Agency,” on Molly Ladd-Taylor’s Mother-Work and Mary Odem’s Delinquent Daughters (Reviews in American History, June 1997).

“Radical Chic and the Rise of a Therapeutics of Race” (Salmagundi, Winter, 1996).

“Children Under the Expert Eye: The Rise of Child Development Science” (Reviews in American History, June 1994).

Book Reviews

Nancy Marie Robertson, Christian Sisterhood, Race Relations, and the YWCA, 1906–46. Journal of American History, 2009.

Deirdre McCloskey, The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce. Enterprise and Society, 2009.

Peter Stearns, Battleground of Desire. Journal of Social History, Summer 2001.

Judith Weisenfeld, African American Women and Christian Activism: New York’s Black YWCA, 1905-1945. Journal of American History, September 2000.

Daniel Horowitz, Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique. Wilson Quarterly, Spring 1999.

Juan Williams, Thurgood Marshall:  American Revolutionary. Wilson Quarterly, Winter 1999.

Patricia Ireland’s Autobiography, What Women Want. UTNE Reader, June/July 1996.

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Andrew Hurley, Environmental Inequalities:  Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Summer 1996.

W. Dennis Keating, The Suburban Racial Dilemma:  Housing and Neighborhoods. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, March 1996.

Malaika Adero, ed., Up South. Georgia Historical Quarterly, Summer 1995.

Robert Dykstra, Bright Radical Star:  Black Freedom and White Supremacy on the Hawkeye Frontier. Annals of the Academy of Political and Social Science, Summer 1995.

Carl Nightingale, On the Edge:  Poor Black Children and Their American Dreams. History of Education Quarterly, Spring 1995.

Marsha Wedell, Elite Women and the Reform Impulse in Memphis, 1875-1915. Journal American History, December 1992.

Dissertations (Advisor)

Guiler, Thomas A. 2016 The Handcrafted Utopia: Arts and Crafts Communities in America’s Progressive Era

Arras, Paul 2015 The Lonely Nineties: Visions of Community in Television from the End of the Cold War to 9/11

Wilson, Jonathan W. 2015 A New York Mirror: Urban Literary Intellectuals and the Image of the National Individual, 1794-1861

Deacon, David William 2012 Paper Towns: Sense of Place in Industrial, Small-Town New England, 1869-1927

Jarvinen, Lisa 2006 Hollywood’s Shadow: The American Film Industry and Its Spanish-speaking Markets during the Transition to Sound

Wheaton, Chad Randall 2003 “And Proudly Called It Growing”: The New York State Fair and the Consequences of Progress, 1890-1958

Willis, Alan Scot 1999 “All According to God’s Plan”: Racism and Southern Baptist Missions, 1945-1970

Heisey, M. J. 1998 Seeking Community: Brethren in Christ Nonresistance and American Society, 1914-1958

Anderson-Bricker, Kristin 1997 Making a Movement: The Meaning of Community in the Congress of Racial Equality, 1958-1968

Courses

Syracuse University, 1990-continuing

History 108: United States History Since 1865 (renumbered History 102) MAX 123: Critical Issues for the U.S. (including Honors section)History 300: Selected Topics

United States Intellectual History since Peirce

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History of American Thought since EmersonLiberalism and Conservatism in Recent American ThoughtAmerican Thought since Emerson

History 321 and 322 (renumbered History 334 and 335):American Social and Cultural History to the Civil WarAmerican Social and Cultural History since the Civil War

History 301: History: Fact and Interpretation/Race in America since 1960History 400: Selected Topics

Contemporary Schools of ThoughtHistory 401: Undergraduate Research Seminars:

American Intellectuals/European InfluencesNew York IntellectualsAmerican WritersRace in America Since 1960Reform in AmericaOral History of Race and ReformWomen and American Culture

History 302: American Women’s HistoryHistory 400/600: Selected Topics

Therapeutic SocietyEmotion & the Art of Living, Ancient/Modern (Honors Seminar)

Independent Study: UndergraduateHistory 600: Concepts of the SelfHistory 615: American Social and Cultural HistoryHST 695: Historical Narratives and Interpretations;

History and Documentary Film M.A. programHistory 715: Graduate Readings Courses:

Modernity and MoralityRace in America Since 1960American Reform Movements Since 1865American Social and Cultural HistoryAmerican Thought and Culture

Independent Study: GraduateOral Comprehensive PreparationDissertation Preparation All-day Doctoral Writing Workshop/RetreatDissertation Writing SeminarHistory 804: American History SeminarHistory 804: Graduate Research SeminarHistory 805: Research in Cultural and Intellectual History

Other Universities

Fulbright Fellow and Senior Lecturer, University of Rome III (Roma Tre), Rome, Italy, 2012American Intellectual History since EmersonModern Social Criticism

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Visiting Assistant Professor, Yale University, 1993-4Graduate Readings and Research Seminar:Interracial Reform and Modern American Culture

Instructor, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1989-90U.S. History to 1876 (seminar & lecture)

Teaching Assistant, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1988-89U.S. History Since 1876U.S. Culture in the Twentieth Century

1986-1988: Research Fellow, University of Massachusetts at AmherstInstructor, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1987

U.S. History Since 1876; U.S. History to 1876Teaching Assistant, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1985-86

U.S. History to 1876; U.S. History in the 1960sInstructor, Vermont Community College, 1985

U.S. History, Colonial Period to the PresentU.S. Character and Culture

Co-Instructor, University of Vermont, 1983Graduate Seminar:History of Women in the Nineteenth Century U.S.

Teaching Assistant, University of Vermont, 1982-84U.S. History to 1865U.S. History Since 1865Recent U.S. Social HistoryWomen’s History

Fellowships, Grants, and Honors

2016-17 Non-Residential Visiting Faculty Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture Foundation: In Media Res, University of Virginia

2016-17 Frank and Helen Pellicone Faculty Scholar Award, Department of History, Syracuse University

2012-14 Fellowship, Religion and Innovation in Human Affairs Program, The Historical Society & John Templeton Foundation

2012 Fulbright Fellowship, Senior Lectureship in American Intellectual History, Università di Roma Tre (University of Rome III), Dipartimento di Studi Euro-Americani (American Studies), Spring 2012.

2006 Research Grant, Pigott Faculty Development Fund, History Department, Syracuse University

2006 Summer Project Grant, Office of Sponsored Research, Maxwell School, Syracuse University

2001-4 Research Grant, Project on the “Human Person,” PEW Charitable Trusts2003 Research Grant, with appointment as Research Fellow, Center for the Study of

Popular Television, S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University

2002 Promotion to Full Professor, Syracuse University2002 Research Grant, Appleby Mosher Fund, Syracuse University

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2001 Research Grant, Appleby Mosher Fund, Syracuse University2000 Nomination for fellowship candidacy; Center for Advanced Study in the

Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University (under review)2000 Research Grant, Office of Research and Computing, Syracuse University2000 Research Grant, Appleby Mosher Fund, Syracuse University1998-99 Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars1998-99 Fellowship, National Humanities Center (declined)1998 Research Grant, Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University1996 Awarded Tenure, Syracuse University1995 Promotion to Associate Professor, Syracuse University1994 Book Prize, Berkshire Conference for Women Historians’ Annual Book Award,

for Black Neighbors1993 Teaching/Research/Service Prize, Moynihan Award for Junior Faculty for

Excellence in Teaching, Research, and Service, Maxwell School of Citizenship1993-94 Visiting Fellowship, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University1993-94 Research Grant, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College1993-94 Research Grant, Rockefeller Archives Center1993-94 Research Grant, Appleby-Mosher Fund, Syracuse University1993-94 Faculty Research Grant, Syracuse University1992 Finalist, Lerner-Scott Award1991 Small Grants Research Award, Syracuse University1991 Nomination, Nevins Dissertation Prize1991 Research Grant, Appleby-Mosher Fund, Syracuse University1988 Research Grant, Center for the Study of Philanthropy, City University of NY1988 Henry J. Kaiser Research Grant, Walter Reuther Library of Labor and Urban

Affairs, Wayne State University1987-88 University Fellowship, University of Massachusetts1986-87 University Fellowship, University of Massachusetts1987 Distinction, Doctoral Oral Exam1985 Writing Prize, Best M.A. Thesis Award, Northeastern Association of Graduate

Schools

Papers, Presentations, and Interviews

Seminar Presenter, with David Wolken, “The Didactic Aberration and the Contemplative Tradition,” Syracuse University’s Future Professoriate Program Annual Conference, White Eagle Conference Center, Hamilton, NY, May 20, 2016.

Interview by columnist Molly Worthen, 90 mins., March 24, 2016; quoted in “Stop Saying ‘I Feel Like’,” New York Times Sunday Review, April 30, 2016.

Chair and commentator, panel on “Some Problematic Publics: Conservative Feminists, International Insurers, and Philosophical Artists” (sponsored by the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy), Annual Conference, Society for U.S. Intellectual History, Washington, D.C., October 16, 2015.

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“At Home with Nostalgia and the Gravity of Sentiment” at “Sustainable Localism, Sages, Prophets, and Jesters,” 5th Annual Front Porch Republic Conference, SUNY-Geneseo, October 3, 2015. Invited talk.

“Beautiful Ruins: An Ancient Stoic Text in Modern Usage,” New Readings of Old Prayers and Practices panel, Sacred Literature, Secular Religion Conference on Cultural Practices,” Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY, October 2, 2015. Conference paper.

“On Theory,” Interdisciplinary Symposium on “Theory and Things,” Department of Religion & Religion Graduate Organization, Syracuse University, November 3, 2014. Invited talk.

Chair and commentator, panel on “Cold War Intellectuals Reconsidered,” Society for U.S. Intellectual History, Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN, October 10, 2014.

Participant as Representative of Society of U.S. Intellectual History, Fifth Annual Conference on Public Intellectuals, Harvard University, April 11-12, 2014.

“Ars Vitae: The Appearance of Neo-Stoicism in the Therapeutic Culture,” Albion Tourgée Seminar in American Cultural History, University of Rochester, March 27, 2014. Invited seminar paper.

“God, Science, and Technology” Symposium, First Things magazine, Union League Club of New York, March 9-11, 2014. Invited symposium participation.

Participant, Civic Mission of Higher Education: Bringing Theory to Practice Civic Monograph Series, Authors’ Symposium, Renaissance Hotel and Newseum, Washington, D.C., January 31- February 1, 2013.

“On Identity,” at “Identity Crisis” Conference, Skidmore College, November 7-8, 2012. Transcript to be published in Salmagundi. Invited talk and symposium participation.

“Scholarship, Activism, and Selfhood,” Interdisciplinary Symposium on “Creativity, Transformation and Public Life,” Department of Religion & Anthropology, and History Department Graduate Students, Syracuse University, November 7, 2012. Invited talk.

“Longing for Longing in the Therapeutic Age: Quandaries of Contemporary Selfhood, Mundane Transcendence, and the Fate of the Common Life.” Universita degli Studi di Napoli, Naples, Italy, May 15, 2012. Invited talk.

“Jane Addams,” “Philip Rieff,” “Plotinus in America,” Centro Studi Americani (Center for American Studies), Rome, Italy, May 7-11, 2012. Series of three invited talks.

“Beauty, Despair, and the Inner Life in Plotinus and Emerson,” Conversazioni in Italia: Emerson, Hawthorne, and Poe, La Pietra International Conference and Events Center, Florence, Italy, June 8-10, 2012. Conference paper.

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“The Settlement House Movement,” Project HISTORY Grant, North Syracuse and CNY Consortium of Middle and High School Teachers in History, Principal Investigator Dr. James Carroll, North Syracuse Junior High School, Syracuse, NY, December 19, 2011. Invited lecture.

Webinar Presentation and Interview, on teaching issues raised by my book Race Experts (W.W. Norton, 2001), TextbookCheck.com, June 6, 2011, 1:15-1:45 p.m. Eastern Time. Invited talk/interview.

Humanities Conference Workshop, “Interdisciplinarity, Interregional Relations, and Geographies of Knowledge” Conference (Organizer: Prof. Silvio Torres-Saillant), College of Arts & Sciences, Syracuse University, Tolley Minnowbrook Conference Center, Blue Mountain Lake, New York, May 20-22, 2011. Invited talk/participation.

“The Fate of Inwardness: Competing Modes of Selfhood and their Consequences for Contemporary American Life,” American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C., February 7, 2011 (also streamed live via Internet). Invited talk.

“Affective Apperception: The Self and the ‘Feeling Intellect’ in Plotinus’ Enneads,” SCRIPT (Society for Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts) Conference, with Eastern International Regional Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, May 7, 2011. Conference paper.

“Ideas: The Preserve of Intellectuals?”—A Perspective on the State of the Field of Intellectual History, with Comment by Robert Westbrook, University of Rochester, U.S. Intellectual History Society Annual Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, NYC, November 17, 2011. Conference presentation.

“From Emotional Suffering to Affective Apperception in Plotinus: Against Stoicism as the Alternative to the Therapeutic Culture,” Friday Workshop, Institute for Advanced Study in Culture, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, December 2, 2011. Invited paper.

“The Gravity of Inwardness: Philip Rieff, the Inner Life, and the Tragedy of the Therapeutic Turn,” Institute for Advanced Study in Culture, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, December 1, 2011 (audio also disseminated via the Institute’s website). Invited talk.

Chair, “Cosmopolitanism and Religion in the Turn of the Twentieth Century U.S. Left” panel, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, January 7, 2011.

Plenary Panelist, “Intellectual History—For What?” U.S. Intellectual History Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, October 20-21, 2010. Conference roundtable presentation.

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“A Culture of Individualism,” Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science Seminar, Dr. Robert Daly, SUNY Upstate Medical Center, September 30, 2010. Invited seminar presentation.

Conference Chair, panel on “Alasdair MacIntyre’s Concept of Tradition and its Implications for the Study of History,” for “Historical Inquiry for the New Century,” Historical Society Conference, George Washington University, June 3-5, 2010, Washington D.C.

“What Do (We) Children Want? Malaise, Mundane Transcendence, and the Quixotic Pathology of Everyday Life,” University of Chicago Divinity School, “Public and Private: Feminism, Marriage, and Family in Political Thought and Contemporary Life,” Conference on the Writings of Political Philosopher Jean Bethke Elshtain,” February 25-26, 2009. Invited paper and participation.

“Therapy Culture Revisited,” Homeland Defence Research Programme, Centre of Excellence for National Security, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore, October 12-3, 2009 (invited talk; declined because of scheduling).

Comment, Panel on Psychiatry and Modern American History, U.S. Intellectual History Conference, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York City, November 12-3, 2009.

“The Ethical Basis of the American Public Philosophy,” Work-in-Progress Seminar, Campbell Public Affairs Institute, November 28, 2007.

Invited Comment, Interdisciplinary Roundtable, Scholarship in Action Symposium, Academic Affairs Committee, Syracuse University, November 28, 2007.

Invited Comment on David Garrow, “Foreshadowing the Future: 1957 and the U.S. Black Freedom Struggle,” Black Liberation and the Spirit of ’57 Conference, Binghamton University Bingamton, NY, November 2, 2007.

“Philip Rieff,” Roundtable on “Philip Rieff: Charisma and Grace,” The Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy, Georgetown University, April 20, 2007. Invited paper.

Comment, paper on Romer v. Evans by Jeff Carnes, Syracuse University College of Law’s Cooney Colloquium on Law and the Humanities, Goldstein Faculty Center, Syracuse University, October 17, 2006.

“Unethical Edicts: Contemporary American Culture’s Threat to Democracy” in “The Meaning of Democracy” lecture series, Syracuse University’s University College, Christian Brothers Academy, Dewitt, NY, October 11, 2006. Invited public lecture.

Interview on my introduction to Philip Rieff ’s Triumph of the Therapeutic (above), Thursday, September 7, 2006, 10 a.m. prerecorded at WAER (Syracuse radio station) for audio

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journal publication, Mars Hill Audio, Charlottesville, Virginia, vol. 82 (September/October 2006). Reference: MHT-82.1.2.

“The Morals of Despair: Diversity, Therapeutic Disenchantment, and the Public Philosophy,” Center for American Political Studies, Program on Constitutional Government, Department of Government, Harvard University, April 14, 2006. Invited seminar paper.

“Liberty and Responsibility in the Odyssey,” Liberty Fund, Miami, Florida, Dec. 8-11, 2005. Invited seminar participation.

Interview on “A Stranger’s Dream” (above), Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2005, 11 a.m. prerecorded at WAER (Syracuse radio station) for audio journal publication, Mars Hill Audio, Charlottesville, Virginia, vol. 78 (January/February 2006). Reference: MHT-78.1.2.

Roundtable Forum Participant, American Institute for Managing Diversity, 20th Anniversary Celebration, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2005, Atlanta, Georgia. Videotaped by WTLN, Inc. (Teaching/Learning Network) for broadcast on public television nationally, “Voices of Vision.” Invited address.

“Is Morality Making a Comeback?” and “Social Capital Versus Multiculturalism” at the Battle of Ideas, Institute of Ideas, Royal College of Art, London, England, October 29-30, 2005. Invited papers.

Radio Interview, BBC Radio 4: “Thinking Allowed” (took place in London, England), October 24, 2005 (live).

Radio Interview, BBC Radio 4: Radio Documentary on “The Business of Race,” (took place in London, England) Oct. 23 for Dec. 12, 2005 broadcast.

Interview, consultation and research response to the film “Crash,” via interviews with senior associate producer, Oprah Winfrey Show, summer 2005.

“Beyond Ritual and Prejudgment: Democratic Self-Discipline as a New Basis for Civility in a Pluralistic Age,” Conference on “Diversity as a Competitive Advantage,” Whitman School of Management and Academy of Management, Minnowbrook Conference Center, Blue Lake, Adirondacks, NY, June 9-11, 2005. Invited conference presentation.

Comment, Panel on public history, Conference on New York State History, SUNY ESF, Syracuse New York, June 9, 2005.

Moderator and Host, Lecture Series on the State of Democracy, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, three to five events per year with visiting speaker and in-house respondents, since fall 2000, including E.J. Dionne on November 30, 2004 and Michael Walzer, April 1, 2005.

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Interview and extensively quotes in Philadelphia Magazine for article on diversity controversy at the University of Pennsylvania.

“On Race Experts,” West Chester University, October 22, 2002. Invited lecture.

Radio Interviews on Race Experts:KLIF, Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, April 24, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m. (live)WJHU, Baltimore National Public Radio, Mark Steiner Show, January 21, 2002.WAMC, Albany, NY, Roundtable with Susan Arbetter, October 16, 2001, 1:00-1:30 p.m (prerecorded)Wisconsin Public Radio, Conversations with Jean Feraca, October 23, 2001, 10:00-11:00 a.m.(live)Powernomics Radio, Washington, D.C., Tom Pope Show, November 5, 2001, 12:00-1:00 p.m. (live)Paula Gordon Show, Atlanta, GA (hosts traveled to Syracuse to record in-person interview), November 5, 2001, 4:00-5:30 p.m. (prerecorded)

Book Seminar on Race Experts, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, April 10, 2002, 3:00-5:00 p.m. Invited presentation.

Panelist, Conference and Ongoing Work Group on “The Human Person,” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Funded by the Pew Foundation, April 4-7, 2001, and April 10-11, 2002, and June 18-21, 2003. Paper published as “A Stranger’s Dream” in the work group’s Figures in a Carpet, ed. Wilfred McClay (above). Invited participation.

Commentator, “Re-Thinking Anti-Racism in Postwar America,” Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, April 12, 2002.

“How Racial Etiquette, Sensitivity Training, and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution,” Core Connections Speakers Series, University of New England Biddeford Campus, February 22, 2002. Invited lecture.

“Therapy, Manipulation, and the Mind of the Modern American,” New England Institute, University of New England Portland (Westbrook) Campus, February 22, 2002, evening address. Invited lecture.

Interview by London-based journalist, Brendan O’Neill, for online periodical Spiked.com, “Giving Race Experts a Lasching,” February 7, 2002, available at http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/9708#.V1NEOFeMA8Y.

Panelist, Invited Conference on the Therapeutic Society, Boston University, March 31-April 1, 2001. Organizer: Jonathan Imber. Paper published as journal article in Society and book chapter in Therapeutic Culture (above).

Working Group on Life/Work Balance, Convened by Professor Robert Putnam, Harvard University, December 16-17, 2000. (Invited participation; declined—schedule conflict.)

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“The Civic Sense: The Maxwell Vision and the Imperatives of Democratic Intellectual Life,” Luncheon Keynote Address, Maxwell Advisory Board, Syracuse University, September 22, 2000. Invited talk.

Radio Interview, “Women’s Voices” Program on Women and Philanthropy, WAER (Jazz 88), September 21, 2000.

Panelist, Roundtable: “Richard Rorty’s Achieving Our Country,” Organization of American Historians, Annual Meeting, St. Louis, March 31, 2000. Conference paper.

“Questioning What Constitutes Social Progress at the End of the Twentieth Century,” Public Address, Faculty Milestones Millennium Women Lecture Series, Hendricks Chapel, Syracuse University, February 23, 2000. Invited talk.

Panelist, Conference on Orlando Patterson’s Rituals of Blood, organized by Salmagundi magazine (transcript later published in special winter/spring 2002 issue), Skidmore College, Feb. 4-6, 2000. Invited participation.

“Do Valuing Diversity Training Programs Really Work?” on “Straight to the Source,” Onondaga County Commission on Human Rights, Time Warner Cable (Channel 13), December 9, 1999. Invited television appearance.

“The Experience of Racial Integration: American Social Life in the Aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement,” Public Address in Critical Events of the 20th Century lecture series, Syracuse University Humanistic Studies Center, October 27, 1999. Invited talk.

“Beyond Racial Diversity,” Maxwell School Symposium on Civic Engagement, Syracuse University, October 23, 1999. Invited paper.

“Racial Matters, Racial Manners,” Radio Interview on Dialogue, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Public Radio International, Broadcast September 27-October 3, 1999.

“Beyond Racial Diversity,” Work-in-Progress Presentation Maxwell Symposium on Civic Engagement, April 23, 1999, pilot symposium for October 1999 conference at Maxwell School, Syracuse University. Invited presentation.

“Editing Women and the Common Life” (1997), Graduate Seminar of Professor William McClay, Georgetown University, April 20, 1999. Invited presentation.

“Prescriptions for Interracial Conduct Since the 1960s,” Washington Seminar on American History and Culture, George Washington University, April 14, 1999. Invited paper presentation.

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“Race and Etiquette Since the 1960s.” Public Address, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, March 16, 1999. Invited talk.

“Tradition and Liberty,” Liberty Fund Symposium, Annapolis, MD, December 8-10, 1998. Invited participation.

“Interracial Etiquette.” Keynote Address. Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Syracuse, April 25, 1998. Invited talk.

Commentator, Panel on the Professionalization of Religious Work, Women and Twentieth-Century Protestantism Conference, Chicago, April 24, 1998.

Radio Interview with Geraldine Doogue on “Life Matters,” Australian Radio National, Summer 1997.

“The Meaning of Work.” Commencement Address. Alverno College, Milwaukee, WI, May 1997. Invited talk.

 “Race and Etiquette.” Department of History, Binghamton University, April 30, 1997. Invited

talk.

“How to Behave Sensitively: Prescriptions for Interracial Conduct, 1960s-1990s.” Maryville College, St. Louis, February 19, 1997. Invited talk.

“Women in Academia: Miscellaneous Reflections,” Conference on Women and Work, State University of New York at Morrisville, March 7, 1997. Invited talk.

Commentator, Session on Women, Race, and Reform. Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, June 7-9, 1996.

“Radical Chic and the Rise of a Therapeutics of Race,” Department of History, SUNY Morrisville, March 6, 1996. Invited talk.

Chair and Commentator, Session on African American Social Workers, National Conference of The Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Philadelphia, October 6, 1995.

“New Thoughts on Black Neighbors,” Phi Alpha Theta, Department of History, LeMoyne College, March 29, 1995. Invited talk.

“Women’s Work: The Social Basis of Civic Mindedness in the American Settlement House Movement,” Keynote Address for the Conference on Celebrating Women in the Social Sciences, Syracuse University, March 22, 1995. Invited talk.

“The Ritual of Exclusion in the American Civil Rights Movement,” American Studies Program, Boston University, April 1994. Invited talk.

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“The Ritual of Exclusion in the American Civil Rights Movement,” Fellows of the Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, April 1994 (earlier version of the above). Invited talk.

“Communitarianism, Civil Rights, and the Welfare State,” Social Science History Association’s Annual Meeting, Baltimore, November 1993. Conference paper.

Commentator and Chair of separate sessions, New York State Historical Association Meeting, Seneca Falls, NY, June 1993.

Chair, Session of Conference on Women and Peace, Program for the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts, Syracuse University, May 1993.

Workshop on Oral History of African Americans in Syracuse, Onondaga Historical Association, February 1993. Invited presentation.

Consultant for Exhibit on Children and the Erie Canal in the Nineteenth Century, Erie Canal Museum, Syracuse, New York, Winter 1993.

“Variations on a Theme: Settlement Work Among Black Americans,” American Historical Association’s Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, December 27-30, 1992. Conference paper.

Commentator, Panel on History of Women’s Community Organizing, Upstate New York Women’s History Organization Fall Meeting, Syracuse University, November 14, 1992.

“Black Neighbors: Race and the Limits of Reform in the American Settlement House Movement, 1890-1945,” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, September 1990.

“Female Vanguard in Race Relations: ‘Mother Power’ and Blacks in the American Settlement House Movement, 1900-1945” Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Rutgers University, June 7-10, 1990. Conference paper.

“Race and the Limits of Reform in the American Settlement House Movement,” Dissertation Lecture Series, Department of History, University of Massachusetts, Spring 1990.

“Twilight of the Politics of Metaphor: The Search for a Black Identity in the 1960s” American Studies Spring Symposium at Purdue University, March 24-26, 1988.

“Settlement Workers and Blacks in the Progressive Era: Mary White Ovington and the Limits of Social Reform,” Convention on New York History, New York Historical Association, June 5-6, 1987. Conference paper.

“Inducting the Insane into the Social Order: The Vermont Asylum for the Insane, 1836-1890,” M.A. Thesis.

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“The Reformers and the Reformed in the Work of Michel Foucault,” seminar paper and participation in University of Vermont Faculty Seminar with visiting participant, Michel Foucault, 1983. Invited participation.

Offices and Service

2011-present Member, Advisory Board, Institute for Advanced Study in Culture, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; including The Hedgehog Review

2007-present Member, Advisory Editorial Board, Society2015-16 Chair & Reviewer of Research of Promotion Committee to Full Professor of

Andrew Cohen2015-16 Chair & Reviewer of Research of Annual Review Committee, Osamah Khalil,

2015-62015-16 Member, Executive Committee, Campbell Public Affairs Institute2015-16 Outside Member, Search Committee, English Department, College of Arts

and Science, Syracuse University, including travel for interviews to MLA convention, Austin, TX, Jan. 2016

2015-16 Mentor, National History Day: “Exploration, Encounter, Exchange,” high-school student, Manlius Pebble Hill, research project on history of C programming language (documentary film)

2015 Host & organizer, workshop-seminar, “Frictions with Fiction: A Conversation on Writing” with visiting speaker Todd Gitlin, in collaboration with Public Humanities Professor Harvey Teres, Department of English, November 19, 2015

2014-16 Doctoral mentor & organizer, two-year-long biweekly dissertation writing seminar (approx. every other Friday, Spring and Fall semesters)

2014-16 Doctoral mentor & organizer, all-day writing workshop/retreats (1-2 per semester, Spring and Fall semesters), May 1 and Dec. 14, 2015, as in 2014

2015-16 Doctoral mentor & organizer, 8-10 one-hour doctoral Brown Bag meetings (on cover letters, historiographical readings, dissertation chapter drafts, mock job presentations, mock interviews, meeting with Career Services, etc.)

2012-15 Member/Participant, Albion Tourgée Seminar in Intellectual History, University of Rochester

2005-15 Participant, Tolley Humanities Dinner Forum, College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University

2015 Graduate Mentor, Society for U.S. Intellectual History Annual Conference, October 15-18, 2015; mentoring luncheon with doctoral students in history at other universities

2015 Committee Member, Honors Thesis defense, Joshua Campbell, Department of Political Science (Advisor Prof. Mark Rupert), April 21, 2015

2015 Chair & Reviewer of Research, Pre-Screening Committee for Promotion to Full Professor of Andrew Cohen

2015 Chair & Reviewer of Research, Third-year Review Committee for Jeffrey Gonda

2015 Member & Reviewer of Service, Annual Review Committee of Radha Kumar

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2014 Outside Peer Reviewer, Full Promotion case, literary scholar and poet2012-14 Fulbright Fellowship Reviewer U.S./Italy 20112010-14 Special Collections Research Center Faculty Advisor Group, Bird Library,

Syracuse University2012-13 Regular Contributor & Founder, Longing for the Real Blog2012-13 Regular Contributor, Society for United States Intellectual History Blog 2011-12 Member, Executive Committee, Campbell Public Affairs Institute2011 Member, Search Committee for Curator, Special Collections Research Center,

Bird Library, Syracuse University2010-11 Participant, Art and Civic Dialogue Seminar2008-11 Chair, Annual Review Committee for Junko Takeda, Dept. of History,

Syracuse University2010-11 Organizer, Conference on “Self among Selves: Emotion and the Common

Life, Campbell Public Affairs Institute, Syracuse University, September 29-30, 2011

2010 Member, Editorial Board, United States Intellectual History Society2010 Manuscript Reviewer: Routledge (Britain); New Science in Virtues Program

(University of Chicago); Springer Publishing; Pearson Textbooks2007-10 Director of Graduate Studies, History Department, Syracuse University2005-10 Member, Academic Freedom, Tenure, and Professional Ethics Committee,

Syracuse University, including confidential subcommittee service 2008-9 Chair, American History Search Committee, History Department, Syracuse

University2008-9 Member, Annual Review Committee for Paul Hagenloh, Dept. of History,

Syracuse University2007-8 Chair, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Subho Basu, History Department,

Syracuse University2007-8 Chair, American History Search Committee, History Department, Syracuse

University2007-8 Member, Tolley Professorship in the Humanities Committee, College of Arts

and Sciences, Syracuse University2007-8 Co-organizer, Lecture Series on the State of Democracy, Campbell Public

Affairs Institute, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University

2007 Chair, Outside Review Committee, Modern History and Literature Ph.D. Program, Drew University, Madison, NJ

2006-8 Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship competition 2006-8 Member, Steering Committee, Campbell Public Affairs Institute, Maxwell

School, Syracuse University2006-8 History Department Representative, Humanities Council, Syracuse

University1996-2008 Manuscript Reader (continuing)—Cambridge University Press, University of

Illinois Press, Harvard University Press, University of North Carolina Press, Cornell University Press, Journal of American History, Oxford University Press, University of Illinois Press, Journal of Religious History; Specialist Reader, Berkshire Conference Annual Book Prize Committee; et alia

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1994-2008 Director/Faculty Advisor, American Studies Program, Syracuse University2007 Chair, Carol Faulkner Committee, Department of History, Syracuse

University2006-7 Member, Executive Committee, Dept. of History, Syracuse University (by

election)2006-7 Member, Annual Review Committee for Junko Takeda, Department of

History, Syracuse University2006-7 Member, Subcommittee on Majors and Minors, College of Arts and Sciences

Curriculum Committee, Syracuse University2005-7 Senator (by election), University Senate, Syracuse University2005-7 Member, College of Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee, Syracuse

University2005-7 Member, Annual Review Committee for Samantha Herrick, Department of

History, Syracuse University2003-6 Peer Reviewer, American Council of Learned Societies Annual Fellowship

Competition2005 Chair, Roger Kittleson Committee, Department of History, Syracuse

University2004-5 Chair, Modern European History Search Committee, Department of History,

Syracuse University2000-5 Organizer and Host, Lecture Series on the State of Democracy, Maxwell

School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University1999-2004 Chair, Annual Review Committee for Andrew Cohen, Department of History,

Syracuse University2003-4 Founding Participant, Social Thought Workshop, Department of History,

Syracuse University1999-2002 Member, Graduate Committee, Department of History, Syracuse University2000-1 Member, Ancient Historian Search Committee, Department of History,

Syracuse University2000-1 Participant, Dean’s Faculty Luncheon Forums, Maxwell School, Syracuse

University1998-2000 Founding Member, Executive Committee, Historical Society1999-2000 Member, Committee for the Lecture Series on the State of Democracy,

Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University1997-98 Chair, American Social Thought Search Committee, Department of History,

Syracuse University1995-98 Member, Executive Committee, Department of History (by election)1995-97 University Senator (by election), Syracuse University1995-97 Member, Graduate Committee, Department of History, Syracuse University1994-95 Chair, Academic Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse

University1994-95 Member, African American Historian Hiring Committee, Department of

History, Syracuse University1994-95 First-Year Student Advisor, College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University1994-95 Department of History Representative, Pilot Program for the Peer Review of

Teaching, American Association of Higher Education, Syracuse University

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1990-95 Faculty Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta, S.U.’s chapter (History Honor Society)1992-93 Chair, Arts and Sciences Academic Committee, Syracuse University1991-93 Member, S.U. Scholars Subcommittee1991-92 Member, Arts and Sciences Academic Committee, Syracuse University1991-92 First-Year Student Advisor, College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University1990-91 Asian Historian Hiring Committee, Department of History, Syracuse

University

Languages

French advanced reading, near-fluent speaking/comprehensionLatin intermediate to advanced readingGerman beginning readingItalian beginning reading

Research and Teaching Interests

• history of ideas, culture, and contemporary life• therapeutic culture, practical philosophy, spiritual discipline, self-help• ancient philosophy, classical reception in the modern period, Stoicism, Neoplatonism• inwardness, the human person, the art of living, the inner life• history and philosophy of emotion, sensibilities, love, friendship, loss, time• cultural criticism, classical sociology, comparative literature, contemplative practices• European influence on American thought, modern Atlantic world, intellectual culture• civil society, race, family, democracy, etiquette, ethics, community, place• close-reading, writing, language, translation, visual culture, style, form

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