Stephen Whitfield
Degrees
Brandeis University, Ph.D.Yale University, M.A.
Tulane University, B.A.
Expertise
Twentieth-century American political and cultural history; American Jewish historyProfile
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Professor Whitfield is especially interested in the intersection of politics and ideas in twentieth-century America.
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 - 1994)
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)
Scholarship
Whitfield, Stephen J. "The Uprooted: Hester Street (1975)." Writing History with Lightning: Representations of Nineteenth-Century America on Film. Ed. Matthew C. Hulbert and John Inscoe. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2018 (forthcoming)
Stephen J Whitfield. "Necrology: Daniel Aaron (1912-2016)." Journal of American Studies (2017). (forthcoming)
Whitfield, Stephen J, Andrew Hartman. An Epitaph for Ambition: Max Lerner's America as a Civilization (round table contribution). Society for U. S. Intellectual History. <s-usih.org/blog>. (forthcoming)
Whitfield, Stephen J. "Conclusion: The Memory of 1968." Reframing 1968: American Politics, Protest and Identity. Ed. Martin Halliwell and Nick Witham. Edinburgh, U. K.: Edinburgh University Press, 2017 (forthcoming)
Whitfield, Stephen J, Andrew Hartman. Is Marcuse Stil Right? (round table contribution). June 2, 2016. Society for U. S. Intellectual History. <s-usih.org/blog>.
Whitfield, Stephen J. "The Meaning of the American Jewish Experience for American Culture." American Jewry: Transcending the European Experience?. Ed. Christian Wiese and Cornelia Wilhelm. London: Bloomsbury, 2017. 344-51.
Whitfield, Stephen J. "The Rise and Fall of Herbert Marcuse." Argent, Pouvoir et Representations. Ed. Eliane Elmaleh, Pierre Guerlain and Raphael Ricaud. Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris Nanterre, 2017. 37-51.
Whitfield, Stephen J. ""Hannah Arendt's 'The Origins of Totalitarianism'"." Society for U. S. Intellectual History (website blog) n. a.. "Classic Series" (2016): <http://s-usih.org/2016/01>.
Whitfield, Stephen J. ""Jackie Mason: The Comedian as Ethnographer"." Studies in Contemporary Jewry 29. (2016): 29-52.
Whitfield, Stephen J. ""Jewish American Popular Culture"." The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature. Ed. Hana Wirth-Nesher. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 584-600.
Whitfield, Stephen J. ""The Jewish Dimension of American Culture"." Et-Mol 244. March 2016 (2016): 38-39.
Whitfield, Stephen J and Jonathan B. Krasner. "Jewish Liberalism and Racial Grievance in the Sixties: The Ordeal of Brandeis University." Modern Judaism 35. February (2015): 18-41.
Whitfield, Stephen J. ""A Radical in Academe: Herbert Marcuse at Brandeis University"." Journal for the Study of Radicalism 9. Fall 2015 (2015): 93-124.
Whitfield, Stephen J. ""Die Unverwechselbarkeit des amerikanisch-juedischen Humors"." Der juedische Witz. Ed. Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek and Gunnar Och. Paderborn, Germany: Wilhelm Fink, 2015. 239-255.
Whitfield, Stephen J. ""Joachim Prinz, the South and the Analogy of Nazism"." German Historical Institute Bulletin Supplement 11. n. a. (2015): 99-117.
Whitfield, Stephen J. ""Lawrence H. Fuchs: The Scholar as Citizen"." The Individual in History: Essays in Honor of Jehuda Reinharz. Ed. ChaeRan Freeze, Sylvia Fuks Fried, Eugene R. Sheppard. Hanover, N. H.: University Press of New England, 2015. 461-474.
Whitfield, Stephen J. ""Northern Intellectuals and the Ordeal of Race: The First Decade of "Dissent," 1954-64." Patterns of Prejudice 49. December (2015): 502-521.
Whitfield, Stephen J. "America's Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation." by Grant Wacker. Chronicle of Higher Education January 23, 2015
Whitfield, Stephen J. "Are Snowden's Leaks Dangerous?: Take Claims with a Pillar of Salt." Dallas Morning News September 7, 2014: P 4.
Whitfield, Stephen J. "Frontiers of the World's Columbian Exposition." Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader. 1st. ed. Ed. Laura Hollengreen and Celia Pearce et al.. Pittsburgh: Entertainment Technology Center/Carnegie Mellon Press, 2014. 108-120.
Whitfield, Stephen J. "Prophesying War: How Convincing is "The Power Elite"?." Society 51. September-October (2014): 539-546.
Whitfield, Stephen J. "Refusing Marcuse: Fifty Years after "One-Dimensional Man"." Dissent Fall: 102-107.
Whitfield, Stephen J. "The Theme of Invisibility in the Postwar Struggle against Prejudice in the United States." Patterns of Prejudice 48. July 2014 (2014): 223-247.
Whitfield, Stephen J. "Black Mountain and Brandeis: Two Experiments in Higher Education." Southern Jewish History 16. (2013): 127-168.
Whitfield, Stephen J. "From Patronage to Pluralism: Jews in the Circulation of African-American Culture." Modern Judaism 33. (2013): 1-23.
Whitfield, Stephen J. "Lewis Feuer: The Scholar as Intellectual." Society 50. (2013): 339-344.
Whitfield, Stephen J. "Out of Anarchism and Into the Academy: The Many Lives of Frank Tannenbaum." Journal for the Study of Radicalism 7. (2013): 93-123.
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. "Brandeis University at the Beginning: Judaic Studies." European Judaism 45. (2012): 112-122.
Whitfield, Stephen J. "Chagall's Gift." Jewish Advocate (Boston) March 30, 2012
Whitfield, Stephen J. "Cine Qua Non: The Political Import and Impact of "The Battle of Algiers"." La Revue LISA/LISA e-journal 10. 1 (2012)
Whitfield, Stephen J. "Democratic Dynasties: The Historical Meaning of the 1962 U. S. Senate Race in Massachusetts." Journal of the HIstorical Society 12. (2012): 447-478.
Whitfield, Stephen J. "La vitalite et la variete." L'Arche: Le Magazine du Judaisme Francais August-September-October 2012: 64.
Whitfield, Stephen J.. "The South in the Shadow of Nazism." Southern Cultures 18. (2012): 57-75.
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. "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. "Jewish Involvement in Journalism." Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish Religion, History and Culture. 2009.
Whitfield, Stephen J, Stephen Norwood and Eunice R. Pollack. "Jews and Broadway." Encyclopedia of American Jewish History. II vols. 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. "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. "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. "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. "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.. "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. "Der amerikanisch-jüdische Humor--Ein kurzer Würdigungsversuch." Jüdischer Almanach. Ed. Gisela Dachs. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2004. 94-100.
Whitfield,Stephen J. "The Future of American Jewry: A History." American Jewish Year Book. Ed. David Singer and Lawrence Grossman., 2004
Whitfield,Stephen J. "The Resurrection of Emmett Till." Boston Globe May 18, 2004
Whitfield,Stephen J. In Search of American Jewish Culture. University Press of New England, 1999.
Whitfield,Stephen J. The Culture of the Cold War. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.
Whitfield,Stephen J. A Death in the Delta: The Story of Emmett Till. New York: Free Press, 1989.
Whitfield,Stephen J. American Space, Jewish Time. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1988.
Whitfield,Stephen J. A Critical American: The Politics of Dwight Macdonald. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1984.
Whitfield,Stephen J. Voices of Jacob, Hands of Esau: Jews in American Life and Thought. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1984.
Whitfield,Stephen J. Into the Dark: Hannah Arendt and Totalitarianism. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1980.
Whitfield,Stephen J. Scott Nearing: Apostle of American Radicalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1974.