Donald T. Critchlow
Donald T. Critchlow is a historian specializing in American political history.
Critchlow was born in Pasadena, California in 1948, and graduated from Maryville High School in Phoenix, Arizona. He graduated from San Francisco State University in 1968 and received his M.A. (1972) and Ph.D. (1978) from the University of California, Berkeley. Critchlow was an associate professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, before moving to Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri as a professor of history. In the fall of 2010 he accepted a distinguished professorship, the Barry Goldwater Chair of American Institutions, at Arizona State University
He has also been a visiting professor at University of Hong Kong (1997-98) and University of Warsaw in Poland (1988-89). In addition he has been a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution, a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and a fellow at the Center for Philosophy and Politics.
Critchlow is the author of six books, a textbook, and nine edited books
- The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History(Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press,2007; Expanded and Revised edition, Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2011)
- Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2005)
- Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government in Modern America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999)
- Studebaker: The Life and Death of an American Corporation (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1996)
- The Brookings Institution: 1916-1952: Expertise in a Democratic Society,(DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois Press, 1984)
- Debating the Conservative Movement (co-authored with Nancy MacLean) (Lantham, Maryland: Rowman and Littfield Publishers, 2009)
He has also co-authored a textbook on American history with Paula Baker and W. J. Rorabaugh, and edited a five-volume history of the United States published in Warsaw, Poland.
In 1987, he co-founded the quarterly interdisciplinary Journal of Policy History. Published by Cambridge University Press, the Journal has published a number of prize winning essays and sponsors a biannual interdisciplinary conference. As an undergraduate, Critchlow considered himself a New Leftist but has in later years he has been influenced by classical republican political thought.
He is married to Patricia Powers Critchlow and they have two daughters, Agnieszka Critchlow and Magda Critchlow, and three grandchildren, Andrew, Alexander, and Joshua.
[edit] External links
- Donald Critchlow's webpage at Saint Louis University
- Journal of Policy History
- Interview with FrontPageMag.com
