Russell Jacoby

Professor in Residence 
  Fields of interest: Twentieth Century European and American intellectual and cultural history with particular interest in the history of intellectuals and education.

Born: New York, New York.  

Education: Universities of Chicago, Wisconsin and Rochester. (Ph. D.1974, Rochester)

Publications:

The End of Utopia: Politics and Culture in the Age of Apathy (Basic Books, 1999) 
Dogmatic Wisdom: How the Culture Wars Divert Education and Distract America (Doubleday, 1994)
The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe (Basic Books, 1987; new edition with new Introduction, Basic Books 2000)
The Repression of Psychoanalysis: Otto Fenichel and the Political Freudians (Basic Books, 1983) 
Dialectic of Defeat: Contours of Western Marxism (Cambridge University Press, 1981)
Social Amnesia: A Critique of Contemporary Psychology (Beacon Press, 1975; Transaction, 1997)
Anthology:  The Bell Curve Debate: History, Documents, Opinions (Times Books, 1995).
Articles and reviews in American Historical Review, Grand Street, Nation, Los Angeles Times, London Review of Books, New York Times, Harpers and elsewhere. 

Awards: Guggenheim, NEH ,Mellon, Lehrman Fellowships. 
Professional affiliations: American Historical Association and American Pessimist Society.

 

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