Kevin M. Kruse

Kevin M. Kruse is a professor of history at Princeton University. He served as the David L. Rike University Preceptor of History from 2003 to 2006. His research interests include the political, social, and urban/suburban history of 20th-century America, with a particular focus on the making of modern conservatism.

Education

Kruse earned his B.A. at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell University.

Publications

• White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (Princeton University Press, 2005)
• The New Suburban History (University of Chicago Press, 2006), co-edited with Thomas Sugrue
• Spaces of the Modern City (Princeton University Press, 2008), co-edited with Gyan Prakash
• Fog of War: The Second World War and the Civil Rights Movement (Oxford University Press, 2012) co-edited with Stephen Tuck.
• One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America (Basic Books, 2015)

Awards

• Francis B. Simkins Award for best first book by an author in the field of southern history (2007), awarded by the Southern Historical Association for White Flight.
• Best Book Award in Urban Politics (co-winner, 2007), awarded by the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association for White Flight.
• Malcolm and Muriel Barrow Bell Award (2007), Awarded by the Georgia Historical Society for the best book on Georgia History for White Flight.