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USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Richard Wightman FoxProfessor of HistoryContact Information E-mail: rfox@usc.edu Phone: (213) 821-0991 Office: SOS 283 |
Education |
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 M.A. History, Stanford University, 1/1975
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Ph.D. History, Stanford University, 1/1975
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B.A. History and Religious Studies, Stanford University, 1/1966
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Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History |
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Professor of History, University of Southern California, 1999-
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Professor of History, Boston University, 1997-1999
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Professor of History and Director of American Studies Program, Boston University, 1990-1997
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Cornelia Marvin Pierce Professor of American Institutions and Humanities, Reed College, 1988-1990
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Associate Professor of History and Humanities, Reed College, 1981-1988
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Assistant Professor of History and American Studies, Yale University, 1975-1981
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Description of Research |
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Summary Statement of Research Interests |
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| Professor Fox studies how ideas, beliefs, and cultural practices develop in relation to social structures and individual quests for meaning. He is especially intrigued by the curious intermingling of religiosity and secularity in the United States. This borderline of piety and worldliness is a very fruitful area for further historical research. | |
Research Keywords |
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| American cultural history, American intellectual history, nineteenth-century United States History | |
Conferences and Other Presentations |
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Conference Presentations |
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"Striding Toward Assassination: Lincoln's March Through Richmond, April 4, 1865", An Abraham Lincoln for the 21st Century, Lecture/Seminar, Huntington Library, Invited, 04/2009-
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Publications |
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Book |
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Fox, R. W.
(2004).
Jesus in America: Personal Savior, Cultural Hero, National Obsession (Harper Collins/Harper One, 2004). San Francisco: Harper Collins/Harper One.
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Fox, R. W.
(1999).
Trials of Intimacy: Love and Loss in the Beecher-Tilton Scandal (University of Chicago Press, 1999). University of Chicago Press.
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Fox, Richard Wightman (Ed.).
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In Face of the Facts: Moral Inquiry in American Scholarship (Cambridge University Press, 1998) [co-editor with Robert Westbrook].
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Fox, Richard Wightman (Ed.).
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A Companion to American Thought (Blackwell Publishers, 1995) [co-editor with James Kloppenberg and author of numerous entries]. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.
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Fox, R. W.
(1993).
The Power of Culture: Critical Essays in American History (University of Chicago Press, 1993) [co-editor with Jackson Lears and author of essay entitled "Intimacy on Trial: Cultural Meanings of the Beecher-Tilton Affair".
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Fox, R. W.
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Reinhold Niebuhr: A Biography (1985; Cornell University Press, 1996). Pantheon Books (1985); Cornell University Press (1996).
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Fox, R. W.
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The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in American History, 1880-1980 (Pantheon Books, 1983) [co-editor with Jackson Lears and author of essay entitled "Epitaph for Middletown: Robert S. Lynd and the Analysis of Consumer Culture"].
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Fox, R. W.
(1979).
So Far Disordered in Mind: Insanity in California, 1870-1930 (University of California Press, 1979). Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
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Book Chapter |
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Fox, R. W.
(2011).
"Lincoln's Practice of Republicanism" in *The Living Lincoln,* ed. Thomas Horrocks, et al. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2011), pp. 131-51). The Living Lincoln Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.
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Multimedia Scholarship and Creative Works |
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illustrated blog post, monthly blog posts at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library's website (alplm.org), including:
Was Lincoln a ‘Self-Made Man’?" May 2, 2011
"Lincoln’s Homage to ‘Labor’," March 29, 2011
"Lincoln at Prayer: ‘Driven to My Knees’," February 28, 2011
"Lincoln’s Boyishness," February 7, 2011
"Lincoln’s Dreams," January 10, 2011
, 2010-2011
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Honors and Awards |
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American Antiquarian Society Fellowship Recipient, Distinguished Senior Mellon Fellowship, 2005-2006
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American Association of Publishers History Award (Second Place) for Trials of Intimacy, 1999-2000
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USC Endowed Chair, Chair in American Civilization, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France, 1997-1998
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Residency at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellow, 1992-1993
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Guggenheim Fellowship Recipient, 1988-1989
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American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship Recipient, ACLS Fellowship for College Teachers, 1987-1988
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Service to the Profession |
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Editorships and Editorial Boards |
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Editor, Intellectual History Newsletter, 1990-1996
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Board of Managing Editors, American Quarterly, 1992-1993
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Editorial Board Member, Journal of American History, 1989-1992
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