James T. Kloppenberg

James T. Kloppenburg
Born	(1951-06-23) June 23, 1951 Denver, Colorado, United States
Occupations	Historian professor
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.

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, and has taught at Brandeis University.

He and his wife Mary live in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Awards

• 1978–1980 Danforth Fellowship
• 1978–1979 Whiting Fellowship
• 1991 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 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

Bibliography

• Reading Obama: Dreams, Hopes, and the American Political Tradition (2010 Princeton University Press).
• 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 Archived February 1, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
• Interview by Charlie Rose re: Obama book, transcript or video, November 10, 2010.