Faculty Emeriti
Roden, Donald
- Donald Roden
- Associate Professor Emeritus of History
- Degree: Ph.D., Univ of Wisconsin, 1975
- Rutgers : At Rutgers from 1975-2019
- Specialty: Modern Japan: History of Education and Gender
- Email: donroden@aol.com
RESEARCH INTERESTS
My work has focused mainly on the history of education in modern Japan, especially preparatory schools for the Imperial Universities. I am also interested in problems related to gender and culture in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Japan.
COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT
- 508:352 Japan’s Rise to World Power
- 508:450 Society and Culture in Japan
- 506:112 Patterns in Civilization: Love (with Rudolph Bell)
- 506:113 Patterns in Civilization: Death (with Rudolph Bell)
- 506:401 History Seminar: Gender and Culture in Japan
PUBLICATIONS
- Schooldays in Imperial Japan: A Study in the Culture of a Student Elite (University of California, 1980)
- “Baseball and the Quest for National Dignity in Meiji Japan,” AHR (June 1980)
- “Taisho Culture and the Problem of Gender Ambivalence” in Thomas Rimer, ed, Culture and Identity (Princeton University Press, 1990)
- “Thoughts on the Early Meiji Gentleman” in Barbara Molony and Kathleen Uno, eds., Gendering Modern Japanese History (Harvard, 2005).
Reed, James
- James W. Reed
- Emeritus Professor of History
- Degree: Ph.D. and A.M., Harvard University
- Rutgers : At Rutgers from 1975-2013
- Email: reed@history.rutgers.edu
Additional Degree:
B.A., Louisiana State University
RESEARCH INTERESTS
COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT
Undergraduate
- Development of the U.S. I & II
- Health and the Environment in the U.S.
- American Social History
- Sport in History
PUBLICATIONS
- “Contraception” in The International Encyclopedia of Women’s History, ed. Bonnie Smith (Oxford University Press 2008), vol. 1, pp: 477-486.
- “Gender Role: The Early History of a Concept,” in Great Interdisciplinary Ideas, ed. William Vesterman (Longman 2007), 492-501.
- “Young and Pregnant: Teenage Pregnancies in the United States” (with John Spurlock) in Adolescent Sexuality: A Historical Handbook and Guide, ed. Carolyn Cocca (Praeger 2006):31-44.
- American National Biography (1999), entries on:
E. G. Boring
Loraine L. Campbell
Robert L. Dickinson
Charles Knowlton
Morton Prince
John Rock
Abraham and Hannah Stone
Robert M. Yerkes
- "The Birth Control Movement Before Roe v. Wade," Journal of Policy History 7:1 (1995): 22-52. Reprinted in The Politics of Abortion and Birth Control. Ed. Donald T. Critchlow. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996.
- "Public Policy on Human Reproduction and the Historian," Journal of Social History 18 (March 1985): 383-398.
Morrison, Karl
- Karl F. Morrison
- Lessing Professor Emeritus of History and Poetics
- Degree: Ph.D., Cornell University, 1961
- Rutgers : At Rutgers from 1988-2011
- Email: ankamor@verizon.net
Photo Credit: Jim Ballard
Additional Degrees:
M.A., Cornell University, 1957
B.A., University of Mississippi, 1956
RESEARCH INTERESTS
COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT
Undergraduate
- 506:411: Great Historians and the Study of History: Medieval Historians
- 510:214: The European Intellectual Tradition
- 510:309: History of Western Morals to 1500
- 510:313: Renaissances in the Middle Ages
- 510:315: Reform and Dissent in the Middle Ages
- 510:391: Historical Studies, Christian Mysticism
Graduate
- History PDR
- 510:527: History of Religion
PUBLICATIONS
- "'I am You": The Hermeneutics of Empathy in Western Literature, Theology and Art." Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.
- "History as a Visual Art in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance." Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.
- "Understanding Conversion." Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992.
- (Co-editor) "Seeing the Invisible in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005.
AWARDS
- McKnight Foundation Award in the Humanities
- MASUA Honor Lecturer
- Fellow, Medieval Academy of America
- Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
- Page-Barbour Lecturer, University of Virginia
- Haskins Medal of the Medieval Academy of America
- Rutgers University--Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research
- Carey Faculty Fellow, University of Notre Dame (Erasmus Institute)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- AHA
- Medieval Academy of America
- America Catholic Historical Association
Mack, Phyllis
- Phyllis Mack
- Professor Emerita of History
- Degree: Ph.D., Cornell
- Rutgers : At Rutgers from 1972-2015
- Email: pmack@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Additional Degrees
M.A., San Francisco State College
B.A., Barnard College
RESEARCH INTERESTS
COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT
Undergraduate
- 510:253 Witchcraft and Magic
- 988:350 (cross-listed) Gender and Spirituality
- 506:373 History of Jewish Women
- 510:350 The Enlightenment
Graduate
- PDR
- 510:549, 550 Seminar in Women's History
- 510:539 Colloquium in Women's History
PUBLICATIONS
- *Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in 17th Century England*
- *In God's Name: Genocide and Religion in the 20th Century* co-edited with Omer Bartov
AWARDS
- Warren Susmann Teaching Award
- Berkshire Prize: best woman's history book
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- AHA
- Society for Early Modern Women
Livingston, James
- James Livingston
- Professor Emeritus of History
- Degree: Ph.D., Northern Illinois, 1980
- Specialty: Modern US: Intellectual and Economic History
- Email: jameslivingston49@hotmail.com
RESEARCH INTERESTS
I started out as an economic historian writing about banking reform in the Progressive Era. My first book, which is still in print thanks to the financial crises created by supply-side economics since 1983, was Origins of the Federal Reserve System: Money, Class, and Corporate Capitalism, 1890-1913 (Cornell U Press, 1986). The success of post-structuralist theory and the return of pragmatism had meanwhile let me make my own “linguistic turn” toward cultural-intellectual history. The result was Pragmatism and the Political Economy of Cultural Revolution, 1850-1940 (UNC Press, 1994).
Before and between these books, I was writing for Socialist Revolution, In These Times, democracy, Marxist Perspectives, and Cineaste on critical realignments, fiscal politics, disco, Keynes, Freud, Shakespeare, corporate liberalism, diplomatic history, and Disney, pretty much in that order. Scholarly publications meanwhile appeared in Chicago History, The American Historical Review, Psycho-History Review, and Social Text.
Thereafter my abiding interest in pragmatism, consumer culture, and the rise of corporate capitalism led me toward a close study of modern feminism, particularly as it had emerged and evolved in the 20th-century US. The result was Pragmatism, Feminism, and Democracy: Rethinking the Politics of American History (Routledge, 2001).
The “election” of George W. Bush and the political, intellectual, and cultural consequences of 9/11 changed my attitude toward history. I started a blog in 2003 as a desperate, feeble protest against the militarization of American life and the march toward a “war on terror” in the Middle East. It has since evolved into a writing experiment, a place where I try out different voices and perspectives, but always with an eye on the past.
Among other things, the blog has taught me how to write for an audience broader—and deeper—than my fellow academics. At any rate the conversational, transactional style I learned there informed The World Turned Inside Out: American Thought and Culture at the End of the 20th Century (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009). This book is in most respects a product of teaching undergraduate classes on cultural history in which music, movies, and cartoon politics are the principal subjects.
When the Great Recession hit, I was swamped with demands to explain it, mostly from perfect strangers who had read the Fed book. Here’s a financial crisis, they said, what’s the story? So in October 2008, I wrote up a two-part comparison of the Great Depression and the current debacle, posted it at the blog, and offered it to History News Network. It went viral within a week. That’s how Against Thrift: Why Consumer Culture is Good for the Economy, the Environment, and Your Soul (Basic Books, 2011), and op-eds for Wired, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Christian Science Monitor, got written.
My current interests center on the intellectual revolution in the pilot disciplines of the postwar university, particularly in History departments—I’m 20,000 words into a book on the topic—and on the fetish of work in every current incarnation of critical theory, from Marxism to psychoanalysis. The latter interest has given me a tentative title for another book. F@!% WORK, I call it, with an endless subtitle that would just start as follows: Why “Full Employment’ is a Bad Idea, or, When Work Disappears, What Is To Be Done?