Education
Yale University, Ph.D. (History), 1976
Amherst College, B.A. (Magna Cum Laude, American Studies), 1969
Piscataway Township High School, Piscataway, NJ, 1965
Previous Positions
President
University of Washington, 1995–2002
Executive Vice Chancellor, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1992–1995
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1989–1992
Chair of the Department of History
Rutgers University, 1987–1989
Founding Director of the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis
Rutgers University, 1988–1989
Assistant Professor, 1976–1981; Associate Professor, 1981–1985;
Professor, 1985–1992
Department of History, Rutgers University
Selected Awards and Fellowships
Phi Beta Kappa, Amherst College, 1968
George Washington Egleston Historical Prize, Yale University, 1977
(awarded annually for the best dissertation in American History)
Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University,
Visiting Fellowship, 1981–1982
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellowship, 1985
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1985
Selected Publications (History)
Books
From Realignment to Reform: Political Change in New York State,
1893–1910
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1981)
Progressivism, coauthored with Arthur S. Link
(Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1983)
The Party Period and Public Policy: American Politics from the Age of Jackson
to the Progressive Era
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1986)
Articles
"Ethno-Cultural Interpretations of Nineteenth-Century American
Voting Behavior,"
Political Science Quarterly 89 (June 1974): 351–77
"The Party Period and Public Policy: An Exploratory Hypothesis,"
Journal of American History 66 (September 1979): 279–98
"The Discovery That Business Corrupts Politics: A Reappraisal of the Origins
of Progressivism,"
American Historical Review 86 (April 1981): 247–74
"Public Life in Industrial America, 1877–1917," in Eric Foner,
ed.,
The New American History (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990):
93–117
Speeches and writings as President of Rutgers University may be found at http://www.president.rutgers.edu/speeches.shtml.
