Commonwealth Professor (1978)

Twentieth Century U.S., Social

On Leave: Fall 2009

Office Hours: Tu 2:00-3:30 and by appointment

Office: 119 Randall Hall

Phone: (434) 924-6390

Fax: (434) 924-7891

Email: ozvirginia.edu

Education

License d’histoire et de géographie (B.A.). Université de Paris X-Nanterre (1968).
Doctorat de troisième cycle , Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne (1977).
Doctorat d’État ès Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne (1982).

Publications, Awards, and Activities

Books

Currently working on a history of American philanthropy in the twentieth century. Under contract with Princeton University Press.

Why the American Century? University of Chicago Press, 1998. French translation: Le siècle américain, Fayard, 2000. Chinese translation, Xinhua Publishing Company, 2001; Italian translation, Perché il secolo americano? Preface by Arnaldo Bagnasco, Bologna: il Mulino, 2002 (Incontri); Japanese translation, Tosui Shobo, 2005.

Making America Corporate, 1870-1920. University of Chicago Press, 1990. French translation: L'Amérique en col blanc, Belin, 1991.

The Changing Face of Inequality: Urbanization, Industrial Development, and Immigrants in Detroit, 1880-1920. University of Chicago Press, 1982; French translation: Naissance de l'Amérique industrielle. Aubier, 1983.

Edited Volumes

Editor, new edition of Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, trans. Arthur Goldhammer. The Library of America, 2004.

Editor, with Alan S. Kahan, The Tocqueville Reader: A Life in Letters and Politics. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.

Editor, with Leonard Schoppa and Nobuhiro Hiwatari, eds. Social Contracts under Stress: The Middle Classes of America, Europe, and Japan at the Turn of the Century. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2002.

Editor, with David Ward, The Landscape of Modernity, Russell Sage Foundation, 1992.

Editor, Reliving the Past: The Worlds of Social History. University of North Carolina Press, 1985.

Recent Articles

“Tocqueville and the Americans: Democracy in America as Read in Nineteenth-Century America” in Cambridge Companion to Tocqueville, ed. Cheryl Welch (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006): 359-96

“Philanthropy as Creed: The Encounter between Past and Present,” review of Kathleen D. McCarthy. American Creed: Philanthropy and the Rise of Civil Society, 1700-1865. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003), xi + 319 p., in Reviews in American History 32 (December 2004): 506-11.

“Holy Theory,” review of Sheldon Wolin, Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), 650p. in Reviews in American History 30 (December 2002): 564-70.

Awards and Activities

Philanthropy project jointly funded by the Ford Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, and the University of Virginia Bankard Fund.

Visiting appointments at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris: Directeur d’Études, Centre d’Études Nord-Américaines (May 1985-96, May 1998-2001, March 2002, May 2003-2007).

President, The Tocqueville Society/La Société Tocqueville (2001-2006).

Visiting Professor, Collège de France, 1997.

U.Va., Center for Advanced Studies, 1993-94.

Seminar Director: NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, 1989 and 1992.

U.Va. Sesquicentennial Associate, 1982; 1991.

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, 1986-87.

Principal Investigator, National Endowment for the Humanities Grants, 1978-81 and 1984-87.

Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation grant, 1976-78.

Conference grants from the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (1993-94, 1997-98), the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (1998-99), the Russell Sage Foundation (1999-2000), the Florence Gould Foundation (2005), among others.