Thomas Bender

Thomas Bender, University Professor of the Humanities; Professor of History, University of California, Davis, Ph.D., 1971.

"Areas of Research/Interest: U.S. cultural history; 19th-century U.S. intellectuals; comparative study of cities.

"Fellowships/Honors: Frederick Jackson Turner Prize of the Organization of American Historians for, Toward an Urban Vision (1975); Guggenheim Fellow; Rockefeller Humanities Fellow; Getty Scholar; Fellow, Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the NYPL; Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences." CV


 * Governing Council, Rockefeller Archives Center, l986-92

Select Publications

 * A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History (2006)
 * Ed. The Anti-Slavery Debate: Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation (1992)

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