About Geoffrey Galt Harpham
Born 1946. Geoffrey Galt Harpham is an American university teacher and philologist.
Geoffrey Galt Harpham (born 1946) is an American academic who served as president and director of the National Humanities Center from 2002–15. One of the characteristics of his tenure was the encouragement of dialogue between the humanities on the one hand and the natural and social sciences on the other. He is a senior fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University and also a Life Member of Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge.
His book, The Humanities and the Dream of America, was published by the University of Chicago Press in March 2011.
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