David Hollinger

David Hollinger
Born	(1941-04-25) April 25, 1941 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Academic background
Alma mater	University of La Verne, University of California, Berkeley
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	Intellectual history
Institutions	Organization of American Historians, University of California, Berkeley

David Albert Hollinger (born April 25, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois) is the Preston Hotchkis Professor of History, emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. His specialty is in American intellectual history. He is the author of eight books, including Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism (1995) and After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism and Modern American History (2013).

Among his several edited or co-edited volumes is his 2-volume sourcebook The American Intellectual Tradition (2006), co-edited with Charles Capper, which is among the most widely used textbooks in college undergraduate courses focusing on American intellectual history since the Civil War.

Life

Hollinger earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from La Verne College in 1963, his Master of Arts degree in 1965 and his Ph.D. in 1970, both from University of California, Berkeley. He has previously taught at the University at Buffalo and the University of Michigan, and was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University in 2001-2. He taught at Berkeley from 1992 to 2013. Hollinger has served as the Ph.D. advisor to people who have since become well established as publishing scholars in history, including Mark Pittenger (at the University of Michigan), and at UC Berkeley: S. M. Amadae, Jennifer Burns, Ruben Flores, K. Healan Gaston, Daniel Geary, Nils Gilman, Daniel Immerwahr, Andrew Jewett, Susan Nance, Molly Oshatz, Kevin Schultz, Jonathan Spiro, and Gene Zubovich.

Hollinger served as president of the Organization of American Historians in 2010-11. He is an elected fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served as a trustee of the National Humanities Center and of The Institute For Advanced Study. David Hollinger is an elected member of the American Philosophical Society. His Influence on the study of American religious history was noted in a New York Times article from July 23, 2013, "A Religious Legacy, With Its Leftward Tilt, Is Reconsidered".

Works

• Hollinger, David A.; Capper, Charles (1989). The American intellectual tradition: a sourcebook. 1620-1865. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195057744.
• Hollinger, David A. (April 1989). In the American Province: Studies in the History and Historiography of Ideas. JHU Press. ISBN 9780801838262.
• Hollinger, David A. (2006-02-28). Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism. Basic Books. ISBN 0465030653.
• Hollinger, David A. (2006-03-06). Cosmopolitanism and Solidarity: Studies in Ethnoracial, Religious, and Professional Affiliation in the United States. Univ of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299216634.
• Hollinger, David A. (2013-04-21). After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History. Princeton University Press. ISBN 1400845998.
• Hollinger, David A. (2017-10-17). Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World But Changed America. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691158433.
• Hollinger, David A. (2019). When this Mask of Flesh is Broken: The Story of an American Protestant Family. Outskirts Press. ISBN 1977211143.

Presentations and Panels

• Race in the Age of Obama, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, St. Louis, MO (2012)
• Kuhn, the Quotidian, and the Question of God's Death,Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society at the University of California, Berkeley (2013)

External links

• U.C. Berkeley faculty page
• "Battling Protestants - A Conversation with David Hollinger", Ideas Roadshow, 2015
• http://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-Cant-the-Sciencesthe/142239