 T.J. Jackson Lears
Board of Governors Professor of History Editor-in-Chief, Raritan Quarterly Review Ph.D., YaleM.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel HillB.A., University of VirginiaAt Rutgers since 1986Room 201
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RESEARCH INTERESTS U. S. cultural and intellectual history, comparative religious history, literature and the visual arts, folklore and folk beliefs
COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT Undergraduate - 510:374 Cultural History of the U. S. in the 20th Century
- 510:372 American Thought since 1850
- Film and History
Graduate - Seminar in U.S. Cultural History
- Colloquium in Cultural History
PUBLICATIONS - Something for Nothing: Luck in America (New York: Viking Penguin, 2003)
- Fables of Abundance: a Cultural History of Advertising in America (New York: Basic Books, 1994)
- No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920 (New York: Pantheon, 1981; reissued by University of Chicago Press, 1994; Japanese translation by Shohakusha Publishing, forthcoming)
- Essays and reviews in The New Republic, The Nation, and other magazines
AWARDS - Los Angeles Times Book Award in History and NJ-NEH Book Award to Fables of Abundance, 1995
- National Book Critics Circle Award nomination to No Place of Grace,1981
- Fellowships from Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, National Endowment for the Humanities, Smithsonian Institution, Winterthur Museum, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholarship, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Study (Princeton University)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS - American Historical Association
- American Studies Association
- Organization of American Historians
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