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Allan Megill
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Allan Megill has been Professor of
History at the
University  of Virginia
since 1990; previously, he was a faculty member at the
Australian National University and the University of Iowa. His
expertise lies
in the areas of intellectual history, historical theory, and
historiography. He
is the author or editor of a number of books, including Prophets of
Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida (University of California Press, 1985);
Rethinking
Objectivity (Duke
University
Press, 1994); Karl Marx: The Burden of Reason (Why Marx Rejected
Politics
and the Market) (Rowman
&
Littlefield, 2002); and most recently Historical Knowledge,
Historical
Error: A Contemporary Guide to Practice (University of Chicago Press, 2007). He
has written chapters in
leading anthologies of historical theory, and his articles, essays, and
think
pieces have appeared in a wide variety of publications, including the American
Historical Review, History
& Theory, the Journal
of
the History of Ideas,
the Journal
of Modern History, and Historically
Speaking. Megill has
served as President, Journal
of
the History of Ideas,
Inc. since 2005 and as a contributing editor of Historically
Speaking
since 2004. He received his B.A.
from the University of Saskatchewan
in1969, his M.A. from the University of Toronto in 1970, and his Ph.D.
from
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For more information, contact: Donald
Yerxa, yerxad@bu.edu
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