Faculty
James Kloppenberg
Harvard College Professor and David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History and Chair of the Department of History
- BA, Dartmouth College
- MA, Stanford University
- PhD, Stanford University
- telephone: (617) 495-2504 / (617) 496-0197
- office: Robinson 202 / Robinson 120
James T. Kloppenberg teaches courses on American and European intellectual and political history. His current research includes American and European democratic theory and practice since the 17th century and the relation between history and critical theory. His books include Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870-1920 (Oxford, 1986) and The Virtues of Liberalism (Oxford, 1998). He has edited, with Richard Wightman Fox, A Companion to American Thought (Blackwell, 1995).
In 2008-2009, he is the Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at the University of Cambridge.