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Bruce Kuklick
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Bruce
Kuklick is Nichols
Professor
of American History at  the University
of Pennsylvania. He has written nine
books in the fields of American sports, political, diplomatic, and
intellectual
history, including his history of American thought Churchmen and
Philosophers: Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey (Yale University Press, 1985); The
Rise of American Philosophy:
Cambridge Massachusetts, 1860-1930 (Yale
University Press, 1976); and Philosophy in America, 1720-2000 (Oxford University Press, 2001). The
second of
these three won the Phi Beta Kappa book award in the humanities, while Churchmen
and Philosophers has
been the
subject of a symposium sponsored by the American Academy of Religion.
His most
popular and successful book is one on baseball history, To Every
Thing a
Season: Shibe Park and Urban Philadelphia (Princeton University Press, 1991),
which has won the Casey Award and
the SABR-Macmillan Baseball Prize. His most recent book is Blind
Oracles:
Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger (Princeton University Press, 2006).
Kuklick’s articles and essays
have appeared in a number of
journals, including Diplomatic History, Religion in American
Culture,
History and Theory, Orbis, and Historically Speaking. He is
writing a
history of the United States, One Nation Under God, and is working on two other projects,
a biography
of African-American philosopher William Fontaine; and a monograph, Historical
Knowledge.
He has
been on the editorial boards of a number of
publications, including the Journal of the History of Ideas, the Journal of the History of
Philosophy, Historical
Journal, and Modern
Intellectual History. He
served as editor of the American
Quarterly from 1974 to 1983.
He took
his undergraduate degree in philosophy from the University of
Pennsylvania in
1963. He also spent a year studying at Oxford University
on a
Thouron Fellowship and at the University of London on a Penfield
Traveling
Fellowship in Diplomacy. He
received his
M.A. in philosophy from Bryn Mawr College in 1965 and his M.A. and
Ph.D. in
American civilization from the University of Pennsylvania, in 1966 and
1968,
respectively. Prior to coming to the University of
Pennsylvania,
Kuklick taught at Yale University from 1968 to 1972. In 1992, he
visited the
Netherlands as the Walt Whitman Professor of American Studies, and in
1996 was
Guest Professor in Leuven, Belgium. He has also held visiting
appointments at
the Open University in London and at University College, London. He has
won all
the major teaching prizes given by the University of Pennsylvania, and
in 2004
he was elected to the American Philosophical Society. The recipient of
grants
from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Rockefeller and
Guggenheim
Foundations, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, Kuklick has
also
been a member of the Stanford University Center for Advanced Study in
the
Behavioral Sciences. Elected to the American Philosophical Society, he
has
consulted for various universities, philanthropic institutions, and
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For more information, contact: Donald
Yerxa, yerxad@bu.edu
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