David A. Hollinger


Preston Hotchkis Professor

   of American History


3229 Dwinelle Hall

510-642-6822 / 1971

Fax: 510-643-5323

email: davidhol@berkeley.edu


President Elect, Organization of American Historians


Recent Papers Available Electronically:

"Money and Academic Freedom a Half-Century after McCarthyism, Universities Amid the Force Fields of Capital." from Cosmopolitanism and Solidarity (Madison, 2006), 77-105, 202-204

"Obama, the Instability of Color Lines, and the Promise of a Postethnic Future" Callaloo 31.4 (2008), 1033-1037.

"Religious Ideas: Should They be Critically Engaged or Given a Pass?" Representations #101 (2008), 144-154.

"Separation Anxiety," London Review of Books, January 24, 2008, 15-18. [Review of Mark Lilla, The Stillborn God].

"Rethinking Diversity,"California Magazine (July/August 2006), 47-49.

"From Identity to Solidarity,"Daedalus (Fall 2006), 23-31.

"The One Drop Rule and the One Hate Rule," Daedalus (Winter 2005), 18-28.

"Jesus Matters in the USA," Modern Intellectual History (April, 2004), 135-149.

"Damned for God’s Glory: William James and the Scientific Vindication of Protestant Culture," in Wayne Proudfoot, ed., Re-Experiencing Varieties: William James and a Science of Religion (New York, 2004), 9-30.

"Amalgamation and Hypodescent: The Question of Ethnoracial Mixture in the History of the United States," American Historical Review (December, 2003), 1363-1390.

Curriculum Vitae:

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Books:

Cosmopolitanism and Solidarity: Studies in Ethnoracial, Religious, and Professional Affiliation in the United States (University of Wisconsin Press, 2006)

The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion Since World War Two (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006). [Edited for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences]

The American Intellectual Tradition: A Source Book (Oxford University Press, 5th ed., 2006) [co-edited with Charles Capper]

Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism (Basic Books, 1995; paperback edition, Basic Books, 1996; Fifth Anniversary Edition with "Postscript 2000," 2000, Japanese translation by Fumiko Fujita, (Akashi Press, Tokyo, 2002); Tenth Anniversary Edition with "Postscript 2005," 2006).

Reappraising Oppenheimer: Centennial Studies and Reflections (Berkeley, 2005) [co-edited with Cathryn Carson]

Science, Jews, and Secular Culture: Studies in Mid-Twentieth Century American Intellectual History (Princeton University Press, 1996; paperback edition 1999)

In the American Province: Studies in the History and Historiography of Ideas (Indiana University Press, 1985, paperback edition, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989)

Morris R. Cohen and the Scientific Ideal (MIT Press, 1975)


Recent (since 2004) Articles and Selected Reviews:



“Jesus Matters in the USA,” Modern Intellectual History (April, 2004), 135-149.

"Rich, Powerful, and Smart: Jewish Overrepresentation Should be Explained Rather than Mystified or Avoided," Jewish Quarterly Review (Fall 2004) 595-602.

"Identity in America," in Nadia Tazi, ed., Keywords: Identity (New York, 2004), 27-45.

“Damned for God’s Glory: William James and the Scientific Vindication of Protestant Culture,” in Wayne Proudfoot, ed., Re-Experiencing Varieties: William James and a Science of Religion (New York, 2004), 9-30.

"Among the Believers: The Politics of Sin and Secularism," Harper's (November, 2004).

"The One Drop Rule and the One Hate Rule," Daedalus (Winter 2005), 18-28.

"Profession and Politics: Zelnik as Campus Leader," in Reginald Zelnik, et. al., Perils of Pankratova: A Memorial Volume (University of Washington Press, 2005), 108-116.

"Life in a Force Field: J. Robert Oppenheimer," American Scientist (January-February 2006).

"Race and Politics in the U.S. Census," Chronicle of Higher Education (March 17, 2006).

"Rethinking Diversity," California Magazine (July/August 2006), 47-49.

"From Identity to Solidarity," Daedalus (Fall 2006), 23-31.

"American Ethnoracial History and the Amalgamation Narrative," Journal of American Ethnic History (Summer, 2006), 153-159.

"American Intellectual History, 1907-2007," Magazine of History (April 2007), 14-17.

"Religious Ideas: Should They be Critically Debated or Given a Pass?," Representations #101 (January 2008).

"Separation Anxiety," London Review of Books, January 24, 2008, 15-18. [Review of Mark Lilla, The Stillborn God]

Review of William H. Sewell, Jr., Logics of History, in Journal of Modern History (March 2008), 109-110.

"Obama, the Instability of Color Lines, and the Promise of a Postethnic Future" Callaloo 31.4 (2008), 1033-1037.

"Civic Patriotism and the Critical Discussion of Religious Ideas," in Sally Steenland, ed., Debating the Divine: Religion in 21st Century American Democracy (Washington DC, 2008).

"Comments on Manifestos for History," Historically Speaking July/August (2008), 27-29.

"Church People and Others," in James Banner and John Gills, eds.Becoming Historians (Chicago, 2009), 101 - 121.

"The Unity of Knowledge and the Diversity of Knowers: Science as an Agent of Cultural Integration in the United States Between the Two World Wars," In Geert Somsen and Harmka Kamminga, eds., Pursuing the Unity of Science: Ideology and Scientific Practice Between the Great War and the Cold War (forthcoming 2009).

"The MVHR, the JAH, and Intellectual History: From the Margins and the Mainstream," in Richard Kirkendall, ed., One Hundred Years of Scholarly Journals of the Organization of American Historians (University of Illinois Press, forthcoming, 2010).


Selected Current Professional Service:

Editorial Boards of Comparative Studies in Society and History, Modern Intellectual History, and Journal of the History of Ideas
Trustee, Institute for Advanced Study

Miscellaneous:

Born April 25, 1941 (Chicago, Illinois); B.A. 1963, La Verne College; Ph.D. 1970 UC Berkeley.
Appointments: SUNY/Buffalo (1969-1977); University of Michigan (1977-1992); UC Berkeley (1992- ).

Fellow American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, and Harmsworth Professor of the University of Oxford.