James T. Kloppenberg

James T. Kloppenberg (born June 23, 1951, in Denver) is an American historian, and Charles Warren Professor of American History, at Harvard University.

Life He graduated from Dartmouth College summa cum laude, and from Stanford University with an M.A. and Ph.D. in 1980. He has held the Pitt professorship at the University of Cambridge, has taught at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris, and has taught at Brandeis University.

Kloppenberg is Catholic. He and his wife Mary live in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Awards

1978–1980 Danforth Fellowship 1978–1979 Whiting Fellowship 1991 Guggenheim Fellowship 1982–1983 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship 1987 Merle Curti Award 1999–2000 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship

Works "Institutionalism, Rational Choice and Historical Analysis", Polity, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Autumn, 1995), pp. 125–128

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