David Hollinger


David Albert Hollinger 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 and After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism and Modern American History.
Among his several edited or co-edited volumes is his 2-volume sourcebook The American Intellectual Tradition, 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, 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 .
Hollinger served as president of the in 2010-11. He is an elected fellow of He has served as a trustee of 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, ".

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