James T. Kloppenberg (born June 23, 1951 in

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) is an American

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, and Charles Warren Professor of American History, at

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Life

He graduated from

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''summa cum laude'', and from

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with an M.A. and Ph.D. in 1980. He has held the Pitt professorship at the

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, has taught at the

École des hautes études en sciences sociales The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (french: École des hautes études en sciences sociales; EHESS) is a graduate ''grande école'' and '' grand établissement'' in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences. The ...

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, and has taught at

Brandeis University , mottoeng = "Truth even unto its innermost parts" , established = , type = Private research university , accreditation = NECHE , president = Ronald D. Liebowitz , p ...

. He and his wife Mary live in

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Awards

* 1978–1980 Danforth Fellowship * 1978–1979 Whiting Fellowship * 1991

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the art ...

* 1982–1983 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship * 1987 Merle Curti Award * 1999–2000

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Fellowship

Works

"Institutionalism, Rational Choice and Historical Analysis", ''Polity'', Vol. 28, No. 1 (Autumn, 1995), pp. 125–128

Chapters

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Bibliography

* * * *''Reading Obama: Dreams, Hopes, and the American Political Tradition'' (2010 Princeton University Press). Cohen, Patricia

''The New York Times'', October 27, 2010 (October 28, 2010 p. C1 NY ed.). Retrieved 2010-10-27. *''The Worlds of American Intellectual History'' (2016 Oxford University Press) with Joel Isaac, Michael O'Brien, and Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen *
Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought
' (2016 Oxford University Press)

References

External links

* ttp://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11285#frame_top Interview by

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re: Obama book, transcript or video, November 10, 2010. Dartmouth College alumni Stanford University alumni Harvard University faculty Brandeis University faculty Academic staff of the University of Paris 1951 births Living people Academics of the University of Cambridge 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers American male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub