Steve Whitfield

Title

Max Richter Professor of American Civilization

American Studies

Expertise

Twentieth-century American political and cultural history

Profile

Professor Whitfield is especially interested in the intersection of politics and ideas in twentieth-century America.

Degrees

Brandeis University, Ph.D.

Yale University, M.A.

Tulane University, B.A.

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Contact

Email:	swhitfie@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-3035
Office:	Brown Social Science Center, 303

Awards and Honors

Samuel Proctor Award for Distinguished Scholarship, from the Southern Jewish Historical Society (2010)

Brandeis Student Union Teaching Award (2008)

Allianz Visiting Professor of American Jewish History, University of Munich (2004)

Fulbright Visiting Professorship, Catholic University of Leuven and Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) (1993)

Louis Dembitz Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching (1993)

Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship (Bellagio) (1991)

Max Richter Chair in American Civilization (1985)

Fulbright Visiting Professorship, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1983 - 1984)

Eugene Kayden Award, University of Colorado (1981)

Courses Taught

AMST	25b	Individualism in America
AMST	100b	Twentieth-Century American Culture
AMST	137b	Journalism in Twentieth-Century America
AMST	141a	Discovering America
AMST	156b	Transatlantic Crossings: America and Europe
AMST	185b	The Culture of the Cold War

Scholarship

Whitfield, Stephen J. "The Meaning of the American Jewish Experience for American Culture." 350 Years of American Jewry, 1654-2004. Ed. Christian Wiese and Cornelia Wilhelm. New York: Berghahn, 2012 (forthcoming)

Whitfield, Stephen J. "Jewish Involvement in Journalism." Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish Religion, History and Culture. 2009. (forthcoming)

Whitfield, Stephen J. "Biography: Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932)." Jewish Journal (Los Angeles), Jerusalem Post and others February 6, 2012 and February 11, 2012

Whitfield, Stephen J. "The Bar Mitzvah Goes Boffo." Jewish Week (New York), Jewish Journal (Los Angeles) and other newspapers December 13, 2011 and February 16, 2012

Whitfield, Stephen J, Dan Diner. "Borscht Belt." Enzyklopaedie juedischer Geschichte und Kultur. German ed. 2011.

Whitfield, Stephen J, Judith R. Baskin. "Journalism: United States (English Language)." The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture. 1 vols. 2011.

Whitfield, Stephen J. "Afterword: Reflecting on Chosen Food." Chosen Food: Cuisine, Culture, and American Jewish Identity. paperback ed. Ed. Avi Y. Decter. Baltimore: Jewish Museum of Maryland, 2011. 119-23.

Whitfield, Stephen J. "All That Jazz." Jewish Advocate (Boston) and other newspapers September 23, 2011: 16.

Whitfield, Stephen J. "Brandeis University in the Shadow of Anti-Semitism." Anti-Semitism on the Campus: Past and Present. hardcover ed. Ed. Eunice G. Pollack. Brighton, Massachusetts: Academic Studies Press, 2011. 77-93.

Whitfield, Stephen J. "The Exodus." Rev. of Our Exodus and Leon Uris, by M M. Silver and Ira B. Nadel. Jewish Review of Books Spring 2011

Whitfield, Stephen J. "Franz Boas: The Anthropologist as Public Intellectual." Society 47. (2010): 430-438.

Whitfield, Stephen J. "Jews and Politics." The Princeton Encyclopedia of United States Political History. 2010.

Whitfield, Stephen J. "Nixon and the Jews." Patterns of Prejudice 44. December (2010): 432-453.

Whitfield, Stephen J. "Portraits of America in Jewish Culture." Why is America Different?: American Jewry on Its 350th Anniversary. Ed. Steven T. Katz. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2010. 221-240.

Whitfield, Stephen J. "The Deputy: History, Morality, Art." Modern Judaism 30. (2010): 153-171.

Whitfield, Stephen J. "The Hermans of New Orleans: A Family in History." Southern Jewish History 13. (2010): 119-152.

Whitfield, Stephen J. "The Missing Piece: Jewish Shopkeepers in the American South." Association for Jewish Studies Perspectives (2010): 28-30.

Stephen J.Whitfield. "Projecting Politics: The Grapes of Wrath." La Revue LISA 8. 1 (2009): 122-147 <http://lisa.revues.org>.

Whitfield, Stephen J. "Black Like Us." Jewish HIstory 22. (2009): 353-371.

Whitfield, Stephen J. "Commerce and Community: A Business History of Jacksonville Jewry." Southern Jewish History 12. (2009): 115-226.

Whitfield, Stephen J, Stephen Norwood and Eunice R. Pollack. "Jews and Broadway." Encyclopedia of American Jewish History. II vols. 2008.

Whitfield, Stephen J. "Harry Golden (1902-1982)." Encyclopedia of Jewish American Popular Culture. 2008.

Whitfield, Stephen J. "How the Fifties Became the Sixties." Historically Speaking 9. (2008): 8-11, 16-18.

Whitfield, Stephen J. "Influence and Affluence: 1967-2000." The Columbia History of Jews and Judaism in America. Ed. Marc Lee Raphael. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. 142-63.

Whitfield, Stephen J. "Necrology: Benny Kraut." American Jewish History 94. (2008): 331-334.

Whitfield, Stephen J. "The "Golden" Era of Civil Rights: Consequences of The Carolina Israelite." Southern Cultures 14. (2008): 26-51.

Whitfield, Stephen J, Yirmihayu Yovel. "Interwar Cinema in the United States." New Jewish Time-Jewish Culture in a Secular Age-An Encyclopedic View. 2007.

Whitfield, Stephen J, Yirmihayu Yovel. "The Cultural Responses of American Jewry to Modernization and Secularization." New Jewish Time-Jewish Culture in a Secular Age-An Encyclopedic View. 2007.

Whitfield, Stephen J. "Anniversary: West Side Storied." The Forward September 7, 2007: B 3.

Whitfield, Stephen J. "Between Memory and Messianism: A Brief History of American Jewish Identity." The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation. Ed. Staci Boris. Chicago: Spertus Museum, 2007. 44-55.

Whitfield, Stephen J. "Billy Graham, un pasteur americain en politique." Vingtième Siècle 96. (2007): 209-24.

Whitfield, Stephen J. "Framing Florida Jewry." Southern Jewish History 10. (2007): 103-34.

Whitfield, Stephen J. "Introduction." America--From Near and Far: Varieties of American Experience. Ed. Marc Lee Raphael. Williamsburg, Va.: College of William and Mary Press, 2007. i-viii.

Whitfield, Stephen J. "What One Book: U. S. Civil Rights Movement." Bookmarks July-August, 2007: 15.

Whitfield, Stephen J. "Brandeis University." Encyclopedia Judaica. 2006.

Whitfield, Stephen J. "Daniel J. Boorstin." The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives. 2006.

Whitfield, Stephen J. "Introduction." The Representation of the Holocaust in Literature and Film. vol. 2 Ed. Marc Lee Raphael. Williamsburg, Va.: College of WIlliam and Mary Press, 2006. 1-10.

Whitfield, Stephen J. "Jewish Fates, Altered States." Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History. Ed. Marcie Cohen Ferris and Mark I. Greenberg. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 2006. 304-329.

Whitfield, Stephen J. "The American Century of Henry Luce." Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal. Ed. Michael Kazin and Joseph A. McCartin. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. 90-107.

Whitfield, Stephen J. "The Culture of the Cold War." The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture. Ed. Christopher Bigsby. Cambridge, U. K.: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 256-274.

Whitfield, Stephen J. "Unathletic Department." Jews, Sports and the Rites of Citizenship. Ed. Jack Kugelmass. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. 51-71.

Stephen J. Whitfield, ed. A Companion to 20th Century America. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2004.

Whitfield, Stephen J. "Elections 2004: Bush v. Kerry (symposium)." Moment (2004): 51.

Whitfield, Stephen J.. "Daniel J. Boorstin." The Times (London) March 2, 2004.

Whitfield,Stephen J. "A Special Meaning for July 4." Boston Globe July 4, 2004: G 11.

Whitfield,Stephen J. "American Jews and Politics." From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America. Ed. Michael W. Grunberger. New York: George Braziller in association with the Library of Congress, 2004. 179-193.

Whitfield,Stephen J. "Arts as Weapons." Encyclopedia of Americans at War: Society, Culture and the Homefront. Ed. Jack Resch. Macmillan Reference, 2005, 2004

Whitfield,Stephen J. "Der amerikanisch-jüdische Humor--Ein kurzer Würdigungsversuch." Jüdischer Almanach. Ed. Gisela Dachs. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2004. 94-100.

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