Daniel T. Rodgers

Dan Rodgers is an historian of American ideas and culture. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin and, for the last thirty years, at Princeton, where he is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History. He is the author of The Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920 (1976), Contested Truths: Keywords in American Politics since Independence (1987), Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (1998), and Age of Fracture (2011), featured in his Rorotoko interview. He is the winner of book awards as well as teaching prizes. He has been a Fulbright lecturer in Germany and Japan and the Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at Cambridge University. Dan Rodgers is a member of the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences.