Assistant Professor (2007)

20th Century U.S.

On Leave: Fall 2007-Spring 2008

Office: 216 Randall Hall

Phone: (434) 924-1439

Fax: (434) 924-7891

Email: jenniferburnsvirginia.edu

Education

A.B. Harvard University, 1998
M.A. University of California, Berkeley, 2001
Ph.D. University of California, Berkley, 2005

Publications and Presentations

Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (forthcoming, Oxford University Press).

"O Libertarian, Where is Thy Sting?" Journal of Policy History, Vol. 19, No. 4, 2007, 453-471.

"Liberalism and Conservative Ideas," in Liberalism for a New Century, eds. Neil Jumonville and Kevin Mattson (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007).

"Godless Capitalism: Ayn Rand and the Conservative Movement," Modern Intellectual History, 1, 3 (November 2004): 1-27. Also printed in American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in Twentieth Century America, ed. Nelson Lichtenstein (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006).

"In Retrospect: George Nash’s The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945," Reviews in American History, 32 (September 2004): 447-462.

"Three Furies of Libertarianism: Rose Wilder Lane, Isabel Paterson, and Ayn Rand," paper presented in panel "Foremothers of Ann Coulter: Right-Wing Women and the Conservative Intellectual Movement in the United States, 1930-1980." American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 5-8, 2006.