Caroline Winterer is an American historian. She is the William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

. She is also Professor, by courtesy, of Classics. From 2013 to 2019, she was Director of the Stanford Humanities Center. She received her B.A. from

Pomona College Pomona College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to recreate a "college of the New England type" in Southern California. In 1925, it became ...

and her Ph.D. from the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

. Her expertise is American history before 1900, especially the

history of ideas Intellectual history (also the history of ideas) is the study of the history of human thought and of intellectuals, people who conceptualize, discuss, write about, and concern themselves with ideas. The investigative premise of intellectual histor ...

political theory Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions and the relationships between them. Its topics include politics, l ...

, and the

history of science The history of science covers the development of science from ancient times to the present. It encompasses all three major branches of science: natural, social, and formal. Science's earliest roots can be traced to Ancient Egypt and Meso ...

.Caroline Winterer profile
at stanford.edu/people, accessed 9 February 2018

Books

*
How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America
'. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. *

' .Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. edited with Karen Wigen. *
American Enlightenments: Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason
' New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016, * "What Was the American Enlightenment?" in ''The Worlds of American Intellectual History'', eds. Joel Isaac, James Kloppenberg, and Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, Oxford University Press, 2016 (ISBN forthcoming)
''The American Enlightenment: Treasures from the Stanford University Libraries''
(Stanford: Stanford University Libraries, 2011), *
The Mirror of Antiquity: American Women and the Classical Tradition, 1750-1900
' (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007; pb 2009),
''The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910''
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002; pb 2004),

Awards

* American Ingenuity Award, Smithsonian Institution, for mapping the social network of Benjamin Franklin (2013)

Notes

External links

* Featured in ''Smithsonian Magazine'': http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/dear-sir-ben-franklin-would-like-to-add-you-to-his-network-180947639/?no-ist * "'Enlightenment': America's Semantic Shield for the Cold War," ''The Takeaway'' (WNYC) (Oct. 26, 2016): http://www.wnyc.org/story/enlightenment-americas-semantic-shield-cold-war/ * "Stanford Historian Makes Case for American 'Enlightenments,'" ''Forum'' (KQED) (Nov. 30, 2016): https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2016/11/29/stanford-historian-makes-case-for-american-enlightenments/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Winterer, Caroline Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century American historians Stanford University faculty University of Michigan alumni Pomona College alumni 21st-century American women writers American women historians Historians from California