William M Reddy
| Title: | Chair and William T. Laprade Professor and Professor of Cultural Anthropology |
| Office Location: | 314 Carr Bldg |
| Office Phone: | 919 684 2497 |
| Email Address: | wmr@duke.edu |
| Web Page: | http://www.duke.edu/%7Ewmr/ |
Education
- PhD University of Chicago, 1974
Research Interests
Current research projects concern: (1) the comparative history of romantic love, (2) emotions and family life in France (1750-1850), (3) the history and cultural variability of emotions. Methodological interests include theories of culture, cognitive psychology, interpretive method.
William Reddy's interview with Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney on January 18, 2007, touched on the clinical implications of his last book, The Navigation of Feeling (2001). The interview can be heard here by pressing the play button.MP3 File
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 2004-05
- Research Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2004-2005
- John Snell Memorial Lecture, delivered November 19, 1999, Department of History, University of North Carolina.
- Professeur invité, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, May, 1997.
- Fellow, National Humanities Center, 1995-96
- Directeur d’études associé, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, November 1987
- Guggenheim Fellow, 1987-88
- Fulbright Fellow, 1987-88
- Marta Sutton Weeks Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, 1983-84
- Visiting Fellow, Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen, West Germany, July-August 1982
- Visiting Fellow, Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen, West Germany, June-July 1980,
- Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1979-80
- Research Training Fellowship, Social Science Research Council (concurrently, Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Psychology and Social Relations, Harvard University), 1976-77
- Member, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 1975-76
- University Fellow, Department of History, University of Chicago, 1969-73
- Phi Beta Kappa, University of Chicago, 1969
- CULANTH 207S.01, Anthropology and history
Synopsis
- Carr 229, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
Representative Publications
- The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of Emotions. Cambridge University Press, 2001.