Biographical Information

• Associate Professor, specializing in modern European intellectual history and twentieth-century Europe
• A.B. Brown University, 1975
• Ph.D. Boston University, 1988
• Assistant and Associate Professor, Harvard University, 1987-1994
• Visiting Associate Professor, Harvard University, 1998-99
• At the U of O since 1994

Selected Publications

• Walter Benjamin and the Antinomies of Tradition (Cornell University Press, 1993)
• On Max Horkheimer:  New Perspectives, ed. with Seyla Benhabib and Wolfgang Bonss (MIT Press, 1993)
• "Georg Simmel and the Philosophy of Religion," New German Critique 94 (Winter 2005)
• “Memorial: Fritz Ringer, 1934-2006,” Central European History 39 (2006)

 Current Projects

• Berlin Crossings:  Georg Simmel and Modern Identity