Thomas L. Haskell




Thomas Haskell is Samuel G. McCann Professor of History at Rice University. He is a noted authority in the history of American thought and society and historical interpretation. In the 1980s he engaged in a celebrated debate with David Brion Davis about the role of capitalism and the moral sensibility of antislavery and, more broadly, about the relationship of moral action and social change. He has written, edited, and contributed to a number of important books, including (author) The Emergence of Professional Social Science: The American Social Science Association and the Nineteenth Century Crisis of Authority (University of Illinois Press, 1977; reissued by Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000); (editor) The Authority of Experts:  Historical and Theoretical Essays (Indiana University Press, 1984); (contributor) The Antislavery Debate, ed. Thomas Bender (University of California Press, 1992) and (author) Objectivity is not Neutrality: Explanatory Schemes in History (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998). His articles and review essays have appeared in the New York Review of Books, the American Historical Review, Reviews in American History, and History and Theory. He received his B.A. from Princeton University in 1961 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1973. He has been a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Sawyer Lecturer, National Humanities Institute, Durham NC, and Triangle Area Intellectual History Program.




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