Curriculum Vitae

Dept of History, Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719

(email)

Education

Ph.D.	Columbia University	1971
M.A.	Columbia University	1966
B.A.	Harvard University	1962

Areas of Research

20th Century, Women, Race, Social, and Oral History

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

OAH ROY ROSENZWEIG DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD, Organization of American Historians
Lillian Smith Book Award, December, 2002
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, CASBS
Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
National Endowment for the Humanities, NEH
Fellow, National Humanities Center
Bicentennial Professor of American Studies in Finland, Fulbright
National Endowment for the Humanities, NEH

Professional Service

Susan Thorne's Carnedgie graduate assessment committee, November 2005  

OAH Leadership Policy Committee, November 2005  

Laura Edwards Promotion Committee, December 2004  

Selected Recent Invited Talks

Modern America, New Zealand and Australia and Chile, May-June, 2005  

Various on U.S. modern history, undefined, 2005  

Publications

Books

1. W.H. Chafe, The Rise and Fall of the American Century: The United States from 1890 to 2008 (2008)
2. W.H. Chafe, Private Lives/Public Consequences: Personality and Politics in Modern America (2005), pp. 430, Harvard University Press

Edited Volumes

1. W.H. Chafe, American Liberalism inthe 20th Century (2003), Columbia University Press