VITA
Daniel Levine
Bowdoin College, Department of History
9900 College Station, Brunswick, ME 04011
Education:
A.B. Antioch College, 1956
(Edinburgh University 1954-1955)
M.A. Northwestern University, 1957
Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1961
Employment:
Northwestern University,
Earlham College,
Bowdoin College,
University of Copenhagen
Teaching Assistant, 1957-59
Assistant Professor of History, 1960-1963
Assistant Professor of History, 1963-1966
Associate Professor of History, 1966-1972
Professor of History, 1972-present
Designated Thomas Bracket Reed Professor of
History and Political Science, 1974
Upward Bound, summers, 1967, 1968, 1969
Visiting Professor, Spring Semester, 1991
Awards and Fellowships:
Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1956-1957
Social Science Research Council Pre-doctoral Fellow, 1960-61
Research Grant, Midwest History Research Committee, 1962-1964
Fulbright Senior Lecturer, Universities of Aarhus and Copenhagen, 1968-1970
Guggenheim Fellow, Denmark, 1972-1973
Fulbright Senior Lecturer, University of Munich, 1979-1980
Listed in Who's Who in America, 1975Professional Activities:
Member Editorial Board, Explorations in Entrepreneurial History, 1962-1970
Member of Jury, Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize of Phi Beta Kappa, 1973-1974
Vice President, Social Welfare History Group, 1975-1979
Invited Member, Abreitskreis, "Geschichte sozialer Sicherungssysteme und sozialer
Disziplinierung," University of Kassel, West Germany.
One of five organizers of a conference in Germany, March 1990, on "Public/Private Relations in the
Making of the Welfare State in Germany, Great Britain and the United States."
Member, Panel of Scholars for a Video for PBS on Jane Addams, December 1988 to the present.
Articles Refereed for Journal of American History, American Historical Review, Journal of Policy
Studies, National Endowment for the Humanities.
Evaluator, NEH proposals.
Administrative Activities:
Chair of the History Department, several three year terms; most recent, academic years 1992-1995.
Courses Taught:
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The Presidency of Lyndon Johnson: War on Poverty; War in Vietnam.
United States Since 1945
Afro-American History Since Emancipation
The Civil Rights Movement
The Progressive Period
The New Deal
The Poor and Society (U.K., Germany, Denmark, U.S.A.)
The Development of the Welfare State in Britain and the United States
Interpretations of American History
Conservatism and Liberalism in 20th Century United States
Radicalism in 20th Century United States
Research in Afro-American History
The Vietnam War (first-year seminar)
The Sixties (first-year seminar)
The “Modern World” Begins (team taught)
Languages:
Danish (fluent)
German (reading good, speaking and writing fair)
German Language study, Goethe Institute, summers 1979, 1980
French (reading good, speaking and writing fair)
(Latin unused for many years.)
Publications:
Books:
Varieties of Reform Thought, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, 1964.
Jane Addams and the Liberal Tradition, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, 1971.
Both books reprinted by Greenwood Press, 1980.
Poverty and Society: The Growth of the American Welfare State in International Comparison, New
Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988.
Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2000.
Articles:
"Gompers and Racism: The Strategy of Limited Objectives," Mid-America, XLIII (April, 1961):
106-113.
"Edgar Gardner Murphy: Conservative Reformer," Alabama Review (April 1962): 100-116.
"The Social Philosophy of Albert J. Beveridge," Indiana Magazine of History, LVIII (June 1962):
101-116.
"Jane Addams: Romantic Radical, 1889-1912," Mid-America, XLIV (October 1962): 195-211.
"Upward Bound: Who is Teaching Whom?" College Board Review (Spring 1968), 11-15.
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"John Dewey, Randolph Bourne and the Legacy of Liberalism," Antioch Review, XXIX (Summer
1969): 234-245.
"Den ideologiske Baggrund for dansk Sociallovgivning, 1880-1933, En amerikansk historikers
vurdering," Scandia (Oslo), 39 (1973): 201-214.
"Variations on the Progressive Theme, Jane Addams, Robert LaFollete, Theodore Roosevelt," Men,
Women and Ideas (Howard H. Quint and Milton Cantor eds.), II (1975): 234-245.
"Conservatism and Tradition in Danish Social Welfare Legislation, 1880-1933; A Comparative View,"
Comparative Studies in Society and History, 20:1 (January 1978): 54-69.
"Poverty and Social Security in the United States: The Progressive Years and the 1970's,"
Amerikastudien/American Studies, (Hamburg) 26:4: 444-452.
"Social Welfare in Denmark," Encyclopedia of Scandinavian History, Greenwood Press (1985).
"Social Democrats, Socialism and Social Welfare: Germany and Denmark, 1918-1933," Comparative
Social Research, vol. 6 (1983): 67-86.
"Die Charity Organization Societies in den Vereinigten Staaten 1869-1904: Von der
Sozialdisziplinierung zur Socialreform," Soziale Sicherung und Soziale Disziplinierung," (Florian
Tennstedt and Christoph Sachsse, eds.), Suhrkamp, Frankfurt a/M, (1985).
"The Danish Connection: A Note on the Making of British Old Age Pensions," Albion, 17:2 (summer
1985): 181-185.
"Immigrant/Ethnic Mutual Aid Societies, c. 1880s-1920: A Proposal for a Typology," Essays on
Philanthropy, No. 18, Indiana University Center for the Study of Philanthropy (summer 1995).
AA Single Standard of Civilization: Black Private Social Welfare Institutions in the South, 1880s1920s. Georgia Historical Quarterly, Spring 1997, 1-26.
“Cheering for a Team No Longer on the Field: Rhetoric and Reality in American Welfare History,”
Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. XXXV No. 3, September 2001
“The March on Washington: A Turning Point?” Brunswick Times Record, September 5, 2003
Papers:
"The Progressive Generation," AHA Convention, Chicago, (December 1962).
"Dansk Social Lovgivning," Danish Historical Society, (April 1970).
"Conservatism and Tradition in Danish Social Welfare Legislation, 1890-1933." Society for the
Advancement of Scandinavian Studies, Austin, Texas, (April 1976).
Chair, "Social Welfare and Social Control," AHA Convention, Dallas (1977).
"Anti-Welfare, Denmark and the United States," Council for European Studies, Washington, D.C.,
(March 1979).
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"Poverty and Social Security, Then and Now," The American Historians of Germany, Berlin,
(December 1979).
"Problems in Social Control Theories," Arbeitskreis, Geschichte sozialer Sicherungs Systeme und
sozialer Disziplinierung. Bad Homburg, (March 1981).
"Freundliche Besuche, Settlement-Bewegung und Sozialversicherung in den Vereinigten Staten, 18691904,"Arbeitskreis, Geschichte sozialer Sicherungs Systeme und sozialer Disziplinierung. Bad
Homburg, (March 1982).
"Cycles and Continuity in Welfare Ideology," Council for European Studies, Washington, D.C., (April
1982).
"Social Democrats, Socialism and Social Welfare: Germany and Denmark, 1918-1933," AHA
Convention, Washington, D.C., (December 1982).
"A Freshman Seminar on Viet Nam--problems and possibilities," invited paper, New England
Historical Association, New Haven, CT, (October 1987).
"Women and the Welfare State in Germany, Denmark, Britain and the United States," invited paper,
Center for European Studies, Harvard University, (November 1987). The first of a series of
conferences on Gender and the Welfare State.
"The Reagan Revolution?" Copenhagen University, (December 1987).
"The Charity Organization Societies in the United States and England," Organization of American
Historians Annual Meeting, (March, 1988).
"Ethnic/Immigrant Mutual Aid Societies," Bad Homburg, (March, 1990).
"Literature and History, not two subjects but One," Danish American Studies Association, Odense,
Denmark, (March 1991).
"The Reagan Revolution?" History Department, University of Aarhus, Denmark, (March 1991).
"Det danske Velfaerdsstat," School of Socialwork, Aarhus, Denmark, (May 1991).
"Comparative Welfare History," invited lectures at the Universities of Göteborg, Sweden; Munich,
Germany; Liverpool, England, (July 1991).
"Self-help in Immigrant/Ethnic Communities in the United States," Conference on Self-Help,
Lancaster, England, (July 1991).
“The U.S. Welfare State, 1900-2000.” Conference: Eigeninteresse und Gemeinwohlbindung: Kulturespezifisk Ausformingun in den USA and Deutschland/Balancing Private Interests and Community
Orientation: Cultural Patterns in the United States and Germany (July 2000, Frankfurt, Germany).
Reviews:
Robert H. Weibe, Businessmen and Reform, in Explorations in Entrepreneurial History, (1964).
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H. S. Thayer, Meaning and Action: a Critical History of Pragmatism, and R. Wilson, In Quest of
Community: Social Philosophy in the United States, in American Historical Review, LXXV, (October
1969).
Review Article, "The Future of Social Welfare History," Explorations in Entrepreneurial History, (Fall
1970).
John Laslett, Labor and the Left in Historiske Tidskrift (Copenhagen), (1971).
Jack M. Holl, Juvenile Reform and the Progressive Era, in Journal of American History (hereafter
JAH), (June 1972).
Barbara Gutman Rosenkranz, Public Health and the State, in JAH, (June 1972).
Charles Larsen, The Good Fight, in JAH, (December 1974).
Lloyd C. Graybar, Albert Shaw and the Review of Reviews, in South Atlantic Quarterly,
(Summer 1975).
James B. Lane, Jacob Riis and the American City, in JAH, (June 1975).
Jorgen Dich, Den Herskende Klasse, in Journal of Social History, (Winter 1975).
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Culture and the City, in JAH, (March 1978).
Walter I. Trattner, From Poor Law to the Welfare State, in Social Science and Medicine, (1980).
Christoph Sachsse and Florian Tennstedt, Geschichte der Armenfüsorge in Deutschland, in
Comparative Studies in Society and History, (April 1982).
Melvin I. Urofsky, Louis D. Brandeis and the Progressive Tradition, in American Historical Review,
(October 1981).
Steven J. Diner, A City and Its Universities, in American Journal of Education, (May 1981).
Frank Tariello, Jr., The Reconstruction of American Political Ideology, 1865-1917, in The American
Historical Review, (April 1983).
Steven Blum, Walter Lipmann, Cosmopolitan in an Age of Total War in JAH, (June 1985).
Jens Alber Vom Armenhaus zum Wolfahrtstaat, in Comparative Studies in Society and History, 96:4,
(April 1991): 1317.
Nicholas Lemann The Promised Land, in The Journal of American Studies, (Great Britain), 26:1,
(April 1992): 114-115.
Robert S. Westbrook, John Dewey and American Democracy in The Journal of American Studies
Great Britain) 26:1, (April 1992): 143-144.
Michael Hill, The Welfare State in Britain: a Political History Since 1945, and Rodney Lowe, The
Welfare State in Britain Since 1945 in Albion, (Spring 1994).
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Peter Gross, Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles in America, September 1995, 25-26.
Sven Steinmo, Taxation and Democracy: Swedish, British and American Approaches to Financing the
Modern State, in American Historical Review, June 1995, 879-80.
Raymond Richards, Closing the Door to Destitution: The Shaping of the Social Security Acts of the
United States and New Zealand, to be published in The International History Review:
Leslie J. Pollard, Compliant to The Lord: Historical Perspectives on the African American Elderly, in
The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Winter 1996, 945.
Ballard C. Campbell, The Growth of the American Government from the Cleveland Era to the Present
in The Historian, Winter 1997, 423-24.
Walter Wieland, Zwischen Freiheit and Sicherheit: Amerikenishe Sozial-politik im Widerstreit der
Interessengruppen (1935-54) in Journal of American History, March 1997, 1458.
Margolin, Leslie, Under the Cover of Kindness in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences..
O’Connor, Alice, Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in TwentiethCentury U.S. History, in The Journal of American History, Vol. 88, March 2002, 1624-5.
Elshtain, Jean Bethke, Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy, in The Journal of
American History, June, 2003, 258-259
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