David Henkin

Professor
Office Hours: 
Tu 4-5 and by appointment
2226 Dwinelle
(510) 642-2324
marhevka@berkeley.edu
Education: 

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
B.A., Yale University

Research Interests: 

America since 1607: 19th Century, urban, cultural

Representative Publications: 

The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America, University of Chicago Press, 2006.

City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York, Columbia University Press, 1998.

Courses

Semester Course Title Syllabus
Spring 2012 134A The Age of the City, 1825-1933
Spring 2012 285D.001 Nineteenth-Century America
Fall 2012 122AC Antebellum America: The Advent of Mass Society
Fall 2012 280D Life Writing and Nineteenth-Century America
Spring 2011 101.011 Early America