Mailing Address
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
4 Huntington Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1071
Fax: 732-932-6185
Campus Mailing Information
4 Huntington Street
College Avenue Campus
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Political Corruption in American History; Higher Education in Modern America
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
- From Realignment to Reform: Political Change in New York State, 1893–1910 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1981)
- Progressivism, coauthored with Arthur S. Link (Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1983)
- The Party Period and Public Policy: American Politics from the Age of Jackson to the Progressive Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986)
ARTICLES
- “Ethno-Cultural Interpretations of Nineteenth-Century American Voting Behavior,” Political Science Quarterly 89 (June 1974): 351–77
- “The Party Period and Public Policy: An Exploratory Hypothesis,” Journal of American History 66 (September 1979): 279–98
- “The Discovery that Business Corrupts Politics: A Reappraisal of the Origins of Progressivism,” American Historical Review 86 (April 1981): 247–74
- “Public Life in Industrial America, 1877–1917,” in Eric Foner, ed., The New American History (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990): 93–117
SELECTED AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
- Honorary Doctor of Laws, Rutgers University, 2012
- Honorary Professorship, Shanghai University, 2012
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1985
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellowship, 1985
- Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, Visiting Fellowship, 1981–1982
- George Washington Egleston Historical Prize, Yale University, 1977 (awarded annually for the best dissertation in American history)
- Phi Beta Kappa, Amherst College, 1968
