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Thomas Bender University Professor of the Humanities ; Professor of History University of California, Davis, Ph.D., 1971 Email:  thomas.bender@nyu.edu

Areas of Research/Interest: U.S. cultural history; 19th-century U.S. intellectuals; comparative study of cities.

Fellowships/Honors: Frederick Jackson Turner Prize of the Organization of American Historians for, Toward an Urban Vision (1975); Guggenheim Fellow; Rockefeller Humanities Fellow; Getty Scholar; Fellow, Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the NYPL; Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Teaching and Research Interests

Select Publications:

A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History (2006)

Toward an Urban Vision: Ideas and Institutions in Nineteenth Century America (1975, pbk 1982)

Community and Social Change in America (1978, pbk. 1982)

New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City, from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time (1987, pbk. 1988)

Intellect and Public Life: Essays on the Social History of Academic Intellectuals in the United States (1993, pbk, 1997)

Ed. Rethinking American History in a Global Age (2002)

The Unfinished City: New York and the Metropolitan Idea (2002)

Co-author, The Education of Historians in the 21st Century (forthcoming, 2004)

Ed. The Anti-Slavery Debate: Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation (1992)

Co-editor, American Academic Culture in Transformation: Fifty Years, Four Disciplines (1998)

"Wholes and Parts: The Need for Synthesis in American History," Journal of American History, 73 (1986), 120-36.

"Intellectual and Cultural History," in Eric Foner, ed. The New American History (2nd ed., 1997)

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