James Kloppenberg

Respected authority on the intellectual history of the North Atlantic West from the 18th century to the present. His Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Social Thought, 1870-1920 (1986) won the Merle Curti Prize of the Organization of American Historians and remains one of the most influential works of intellectual history published in the last thirty years. That was followed by many monographic articles and two other books, The Virtues of Liberalism (1998), and Reading Obama (2011). His leadership has been widely recognized, including his appointment as Pitt Professor of American Institutions at the University of Cambridge and as Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.