Courses
Modern America Since 1929, History and Social Theory, Theory and Practice of the U.S. Left

Research Interests
American intellectual history; 20th century U.S. intellectual, cultural, social, and political history; History of social theory and the social sciences; History of labor, socialist, and radical movements; Literary theory and historical methodology.

Selected Publications:

• Daniel Bell and the Decline of Intellectual Radicalism: Social Theory and Political Reconciliation in the 1940s, Wisconsin, 1986
• Age of Contradiction: American Thought and Culture in the 1960s, Twayne, 1998 (paperback, Cornell, 2000)
• Transcending Capitalism: Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought (Cornell, 2006)
• “Sociology,” Dictionary of American History, ed. Stanley Kutler, Scribner’s, 2003
• “The Postcapitalist Vision in Twentieth-Century American Social Thought,” in American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century, ed. Nelson Lichtenstein, Pennsylvania, 2006.