David Albert Hollinger (born April 25, 1941 in
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) is the Preston Hotchkis Professor of History, emeritus at the
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
. His specialties are American intellectual history and American ethnoracial history.
In 2022 Hollinger published ''Christianity’s American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular'' (Princeton University Press). The most well known of his eight previous books are ''Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism'' (1995), ''Science, Jews, and Secular Culture'' (1996), ''After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism and Modern American History'' (2013), and ''Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America'' (2017). He has edited or co-edited several other books, including ''The American Intellectual Tradition'' (seven editions, 1989 to 2016), co-edited with
Charles Capper
Charles Capper (1944 – July 1, 2021) was an American historian known for his work on Transcendentalism and his biographies of Margaret Fuller.
Life
Capper graduated from Johns Hopkins University and UC Berkeley with an M.A. and Ph.D. in histor ...
, Reappraising Oppenheimer (2005) co-edited with Cathryn Carson, and ''The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion'' (2006). One of his articles has become a standard treatment of the process of racialization and ethnoracial mixture, "Amalgamation and Hypodescent: The Question of Ethnoracial Mixture in the History of the United States," ''American Historical Review'', 2003.
His influence in the field of religious history was discussed in 2013 in ''
The New York Times
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Life
Hollinger grew up in the
Church of the Brethren
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, a denomination in which his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather had been ministers, but Hollinger has identified himself as an atheist for most of his adult life. His family memoir, ''When This Mask of Flesh is Broken: The Story of an American Protestant Family'' (2017) is an account of the Hollinger family’s history and its role in the Brethren community.
Hollinger earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from
La Verne College in 1963 his Master of Arts degree in 1965 and his Ph.D. in 1970, both from
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
. Before joining the Berkeley faculty in 1992, Hollinger taught at the
University at Buffalo
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and the
University of Michigan
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. He was
Harmsworth Professor of American History at
Oxford University
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in 2001-2. He retired at Berkeley in 2013.
Since 1967 he has been married to legal scholar
Joan Heifetz Hollinger. He is the father of two children.
Hollinger has been the Ph.D. advisor to people who have become well established as publishing scholars in history, including
Jennifer Burns,
Nils Gilman,
Daniel Immerwahr
Daniel Immerwahr is an American historian, professor, and associate department chair of History at Northwestern University. His book, ''Thinking Small'', won the Merle Curti Award. His book, ''How to Hide an Empire'', was a national bestseller, on ...
,
Susan Nance and
Molly Oshatz.
Hollinger was president of the Organization of American Historians in 2010-11. He is an elected fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been a trustee of the National Humanities Center and of the
Institute For Advanced Study
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. is He is an elected member of the
American Philosophical Society
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.
Works
* Hollinger, David A.; Capper, Charles (1989).
''The American Intellectual Tradition: A Sourcebook''. 1620-1865. Oxford University Press. .
* Hollinger, David A. (April 1989)
''In the American Province: Studies in the History and Historiography of Ideas''.JHU Press. .
* Hollinger, David A. (2006-02-28). ''Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism''. Basic Books. .
* Hollinger, David A. (2006-03-06).
Cosmopolitanism and Solidarity: Studies in Ethnoracial, Religious, and Professional Affiliation in the United States'' Univ of Wisconsin Press. .
* Hollinger, David A. (2013-04-21)
''After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History''.Princeton University Press. .
* Hollinger, David A. (2017-10-17).
Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World But Changed America'. Princeton University Press.
* Hollinger, David A. (2017). ''When this Mask of Flesh is Broken: The Story of an American Protestant Family]''. Outskirts Press. .
* Hollinger, David A (2022)
Christianity’s American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular.' Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691233888
Presentations and Panels
''Christianity’s American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular''(Princeton University, Wilson Center, Oct. 17, 2022)
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Race in the Age of Obama'' American Academy of Arts & Sciences, St. Louis, MO (2012)
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Kuhn, the Quotidian, and the Question of God's Death''Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society at the University of California, Berkeley (2013)
References
External links
U.C. Berkeley faculty page* http://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-Cant-the-Sciencesthe/142239
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Living people
University of California, Berkeley alumni
University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study
1941 births
Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professors of American History
University of Michigan faculty
University of La Verne alumni
University at Buffalo faculty
Historians from California
American male non-fiction writers