David S. Brown
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David S. Brown is Professor of History at Elizabethtown College where he has been teaching for nine years.
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[edit] Career
His most recent and notable work is Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography which was published in 2006. It was the University of Chicago Press's nominee for the Pulitzer Prize in History. The book explores the life and times of the noted Columbia University historian, Richard Hofstadter.
He is currently working on a study of midwestern historians and their influence on 20th-century American historical scholarship. The work is set to be published in 2009 and is tentatively titled Beyond the Frontier: Midwestern Historians in the American Century.
At Elizabethtown College he works with many notable colleagues including: Paul Gottfried, W. Wesley McDonald, Robert Craig Nation, and Gariel R. Ricci, among others.
[edit] Degrees
- 1995 Ph. D, University of Toledo
- 1992 M.A., University of Akron
- 1990 B.A., Wright State University
[edit] Selected works
- Thomas Jefferson: A Biographical Companion, ABC-Clio Inc. 1998 ISBN 0-8743-6949-5
- Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography, University of Chicago Press 2006 ISBN 0-226-07640-7
- Beyond the Frontier: Midwestern Historians in the American Century, University of Chicago Press 2009 (Forthcoming)
