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Thomas BenderUniversity Professor of the Humanities
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Professor
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History
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Director of Graduate Studies
University of California, Davis, Ph.D., 1971
Email:
thomas.bender@nyu.edu
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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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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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