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Professional Preparation
Ph.D. - American Studies Yale University - 1993
M.S. - History University of California at Los Angeles - 1986
B.A. - History Reed College - 1982
Research Areas
TEACHING FIELDS
American history 1607-present; Anglo-American history of ideas; cultural studies; American studies; history of social thought; nineteenth- and twentieth-century American intellectual and cultural history and historiography; historical thought and methods; interdisciplinary approaches to history.
Publications
The Idea of Historical Context and the Intellectual Historian, in Raymond Haberski and Andrew Hartman, eds., American Labyrinth: Essays in U.S. Intellectual History (Cornell University Press, 2018) 2018 - publications
“Intellectual-A Historiographical Survey,” in Routledge History of the Twentieth-Century United States, Darren Dochuk and Jerald Podair, eds. (Routledge, 2018):116-126 2018 - publications
“Review of Jeremy C. Young, The Age of Charisma: Leaders, Followers, and Emotions in American Society, 1870-1940,” Journal of Social History (October 2017): 2017 - publications
“Antimodernism as Counter Culture: T.J. Jackson Lears’s No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture 1880-1920,” U.S. Intellectual History Blog, January 24, 2016 - publications
“Review of Joel Isaac, James T. Kloppenberg, Michael O’Brien and Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen eds. The Worlds of American Intellectual History,” History: Review of New Books 46.3 (December 2016): 68-69. 2016 - publications
“Waiting for My Man: Review of Mark Greif, The Age of the Crisis of Man, U.S. Intellectual History Blog May 13, 2015 - publications
In the Environment of Ideas: Arthur O. Lovejoy and the History of Ideas as a Form of Cultural History, Modern Intellectual History 11.2 (August 2014): 439-64 2014 - publications
Modernisms Endless: Ironies of the American Mid-Century, Modern Intellectual History 10.1 (April 2013); 207-219 2013 - publications
Appointments
Associate Professor University of Texas at Dallas [2002–Present]
Assistant Professor University of Texas at Dallas [1996–2002]
Visiting Assistant Professor of History Colgate University [1993–1996]
Part-time Acting Instructor Yale University [1988–1988]
Teaching Fellow Yale University [1987–1989]
Additional Information
PERSONAL STATEMENT
Daniel Wickberg has taught at Yale University, Colgate University, and UT Dallas. He has expertise in the history of American social thought, modern American culture, Anglo-American intellectual history and historical thought/ historiography. Wickberg's primary long-term interests lay in the intersections between the cultural history of emotions, the history of selfhood, and the history of keywords. His first book, The Senses of Humor: Self and Laughter in American Culture, was published in 1998 by Cornell University Press, and was reissued in paperback in 2015. This work looks at the origins and development of the idea of the sense of humor as a personality trait and a cultural value as a way of getting at larger issues of selfhood and society in modern America. He is currently developing several projects, including a series of essays on cultural and intellectual historiography. His book, The Idea of Tradition in a Culture of Progress: Thinking About the Past and Future in Postwar America, will be published by University of Chicago Press. His work seeks to revivify an approach to cultural history that focuses on the centrality of cultural sensibilities; his essay "What is the History of Sensibilities? On Cultural Histories Old and New," a statement of that approach, appeared in the June 2007 issue of the American Historical Review. His essays and reviews have also appeared in a number of other journals, including The Journal of American History, Critical Inquiry, Intellectual History Newsletter, Journal of Social History, American Studies, Reviews in American History, and Modern Intellectual History. He served as President of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History (SUSIH) 2013-2015, and has served on the editorial board of the journal Modern Intellectual History since 2013.
ACADEMIC AWARDS
Special Faculty Development Assignment, University of Texas at Dallas Fall 2019
Special Faculty Development Assignment, University of Texas at Dallas 2015-2016
Victor Worsfold Outstanding Teaching Award, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Texas at Dallas, 2010-11
Special Faculty Development Assignment, University of Texas at Dallas, 2005-2006
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2005-06
Special Faculty Development Assignment, University of Texas at Dallas, Spring 2004
Yale Nominee, Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize for Best Dissertation in American Studies, 1993
Paul C. Gignilliat Dissertation Fellowship, 1992
Yale Dissertation Fellowship, 1991
John F. Enders Dissertation Research Grant, 1988-89
Yale Prize Teaching Fellowship Nominee, Spring 1988
Yale University Fellowship, Fall 1986-Spring 1990
Phi Beta Kappa, May 1982
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Program Coordinator, Historical Studies/History of Ideas, 2016-19
Chair, History Major Revision Committee, 2017-2018
A&H Curriculum Committee, 2017-2019
Chair, A&H Curriculum Committee subcommittee on ARHM 3342, 2017-2019