James T. Kloppenberg Explained

James T. Kloppenburg
Birth Date:	23 June 1951
Birth Place:	Denver, Colorado, United States
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]

He and his wife Mary live in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Awards

• 1978–1980 Danforth Fellowship
• 1978–1979 Whiting Fellowship
• 1991 Guggenheim Fellowship^[4]
• 1982–1983 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
• 1987 Merle Curti Award
• 1999–2000 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship

Works

• "Institutionalism, Rational Choice and Historical Analysis", Polity, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Autumn, 1995), pp. 125–128

Chapters

• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=utVhckKemRYC&pg=PA185 . Why History Matters to Political Theory. Scientific authority & twentieth-century America. Ronald G. Walters. JHU Press. 1997. 978-0-8018-5390-6 .
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=dHpJ3fgtepAC&pg=PA19 . Pragmatism: An Old Name for Some New Ways of Thinking. A pragmatist's progress?: Richard Rorty and American intellectual history. John Pettegrew. Rowman & Littlefield. 2000. 978-0-8476-9062-6 .
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=VgJwwE9imlwC&pg=PA369 . Rethinking Tradition: Sidgwick and the philosophy of the via media. Essays on Henry Sidgwick. Bart Schultz. Cambridge University Press. 2002. 978-0-521-89304-6 .
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=x-QbmSYg8uIC&pg=PA199 . Intellectual History, Democracy and the Culture of Irony. The state of U.S. history. Melvyn Stokes. Berg Publishers. 2002. 978-1-85973-502-2 .
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=u6UiHVpkiN8C&pg=PA696 . Virtue. A Companion to the American Revolution . Jack P. Greene . J. R. Pole. Wiley-Blackwell. 2003. 978-1-4051-1674-9 .
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=jNKUMNqY64MC&pg=PA350 . From Hartz to Tocqueville. The democratic experiment: new directions in American political history . Meg Jacobs . William J. Novak . Julian E. Zelizer. Princeton University Press. 2003. 978-0-691-11377-7 .
• Book: The American century in Europe . registration . 195 . American Democracy and the Welfare State. Robert Laurence Moore . Maurizio Vaudagna. Cornell University Press. 2003. 978-0-8014-4075-5 .
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=2WRqbgsuUxgC&pg=PA155 . The Reciprocal Visions of German and American Intellectuals. Transatlantic Images and Perceptions: Germany and America Since 1776 . David E. Barclay . Elisabeth Glaser-Schmidt. Cambridge University Press. 2003. 978-0-521-53442-0 .
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=sjmdcd8z-oAC&pg=PA27 . Knowledge and Belief in American Public Life. Knowledge and Belief in America: Enlightenment Traditions and Modern Religious Thought . William M. Shea . Peter A. Huff. Cambridge University Press. 2003. 978-0-521-53328-7 .
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=ro2NfaZW0bEC&pg=PA126 . The Place of Value in a Culture of Facts. The humanities and the dynamics of inclusion since World War II. David A. Hollinger. JHU Press. 2006. 978-0-8018-8390-3 .

Bibliography

• Book: Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870-1920 . Oxford University Press. 1986. 978-0-19-505304-3 .
• Book: A Companion to American Thought. Blackwell. 1995 . Richard Wightman Fox . James T. Kloppenberg. 978-0-631-20656-9 .
• Book: The Virtues of Liberalism . Oxford University Press. 1998. 978-0-19-514056-9 .
• Reading Obama: Dreams, Hopes, and the American Political Tradition (2010 Princeton University Press). ^[5]
• 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)

External links

• "James's Pragmatism and American Social Thought, 1907-2007", Harvard Divinity School, September 25, 2007
• Interview by Charlie Rose re: Obama book, transcript or video, November 10, 2010.

Notes and References

1. Web site: History of American Civilization: James Kloppenberg . www.fas.harvard.edu . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20011127131335/http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~amciv/faculty/kloppenberg.shtml . 2001-11-27.
2. Web site: James Kloppenberg . 2010-01-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100316020003/http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty/kloppenberg.php . 2010-03-16.
3. Institutionalism, Rational Choice, and Historical Analysis . Polity . 28 . 1 . 125–128 . James T. Kloppenberg . Autumn 1995 . 10.2307/3235193 . 3235193. 147572317 .
4. Web site: James T. Kloppenberg - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . www.gf.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110622005641/http://www.gf.org/fellows/7968-james-t-kloppenberg . 2011-06-22.
5. 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.