Jennifer L. Burns
Assistant Professor (2007)
Office Hours: Thurs 3-5 and by appointment. Sign up requested: http://www.doodle.com/fui26y93wthzswaa
Office: 355 Nau Hall
Phone: 434-924-1439
Email: jenniferburns (at) virginia.edu.
Fields & Specialties
20th Century U.S., political, cultural, intellectualEducation
A.B. Harvard University, 1998
M.A. University of California, Berkeley, 2001
Ph.D. University of California, Berkley, 2005
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Prospective Graduate Students
I am accepting new students. Please write with any questions.
Publications and Presentations
Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (Oxford University Press, 2009).
"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.
