New York University
Department of History
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Guy Ortolano

Assistant Professor of History
PhD, Northwestern University, 2005

Email:  ortolano@nyu.edu

Fellowships/Honors: Bernadotte Schmitt Research Grant, American Historical Association (2009); Society for the Humanities, Cornell University (2007-2008); Ivan Slade Commendation, British Society for the History of Science (2006); British Studies Fellowship, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas (2006); Harold Perkin Dissertation Prize, Northwestern University (2005); Josephine de Karman Dissertation Fellowship (2002-2003).

Teaching and Research Interests

Select Publications:

 

The Two Cultures Controversy (Hardcover) ~ Guy Ortolano (Author) Cover Art

 

 

The Two Cultures Controversy: Science, Literature, and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain (Cambridge, 2009):  www.cambridge.org/9780521892049.

 

“‘Decline’ as a Weapon in Cultural Politics,” Penultimate Adventures with Britannia, ed. Wm. Roger Louis (London: I. B. Tauris, 2008), pp. 201-214.

 

“The Literature and the Science of ‘Two Cultures’ Historiography,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 39 (2008): 143-150.

 

“F. R. Leavis, Science, and the Abiding Crisis of Modern Civilization,” History of Science 43 (2005): 161-185.

 

“Human Science or a Human Face?  Social History and the ‘Two Cultures’ Controversy,” Journal of British Studies 43 (2004): 482-505.

 

“Two Cultures, One University,” Albion 34 (2002): 606-624.

 

& book reviews for the Journal of Modern History, Journal of British Studies, Twentieth Century British History, The European Legacy.

 

 

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