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Wilfred M. McClay
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Wilfred M. McClay, a specialist in the intellectual and cultural  history of the
United States, has been SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in
Humanities
at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where he is also
Professor of
History, since 1999. He has also taught at Georgetown University,
Tulane
University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Dallas, and
is
currently a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center
for Scholars
in Washington, DC, a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy
Center in
Washington, DC, and a member of the Society of Scholars at the James
Madison
Program of Princeton University. He was appointed in 2002 to the
National
Council on the Humanities, the advisory board for the National
Endowment for
the Humanities, and was reappointed for a second term in 2006. McClay’s
book The
Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America (University of North Carolina Press,
1994) won the
1995 Merle Curti Award of the Organization of American Historians for
the best
book in American intellectual history published in the years 1993 and
1994.
Among his other books are The Student’s Guide to U.S. History (ISI Books, 2001); Religion Returns
to the
Public Square: Faith and Policy in America (Woodrow Wilson Center/Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2003); and an
edited volume Figures in the Carpet: Finding the Human Person in
the
American Past (Eerdmans,
2007). He
is currently at work on a biographical study of the American
sociologist David
Riesman under contract to Farrar, Straus & Giroux. He is a prolific
essayist, and he is working on a collection of his essays entitled Pieces
of
a Dream: Historical and Critical Essays. He held the Royden B. Davis Chair in
Interdisciplinary Studies at
Georgetown University for the academic year 1998-99. Among his other
awards,
McClay was selected for inclusion on the 1997-98 Templeton Honor Rolls,
awarded
by the John Templeton Foundation for distinguished teaching and
scholarship in
American higher education. In addition, he has been the recipient of
fellowship
awards from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the
National
Endowment for the Humanities, the National Academy of Education, the
Howard
Foundation, the Earhart Foundation, and the Danforth Foundation. He is
coeditor
of Rowman and Littlefield’s book series entitled American
Intellectual
Culture, serves on the
editorial
boards of First Things,
The
Wilson Quarterly, Society, Touchstone, Historically Speaking,
and University Bookman.
He was
educated at St. John’s College (Annapolis) and the Johns Hopkins
University,
where he received a Ph.D. in history in 1987. |
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