Eric Rauchway
Department of History
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA 95616
+1 530 754 1646
[email protected]
academia
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS
Professor of History, 2005-present
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS
Associate Professor of History, 2001-2005
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
University Lecturer of Modern History, 1998-2001
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO
Visiting Assistant Professor, 1996-1998
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
PhD in History, 1996
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
AM in History, 1993
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
AB cum laude in History and with Distinction in All Subjects, 1991
books
THE MONEY MAKERS: HOW ROOSEVELT AND KEYNES ENDED THE DEPRESSION, DEFEATED FASCISM, AND SECURED
A PROSPEROUS PEACE. In press. Basic Books, 2015.
THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Translated into Arabic and published by Hindawi, 2015. Audiobook edition Audible.com, 2009, narrated
by Richard Davidson.
BLESSED AMONG NATIONS: HOW THE WORLD MADE AMERICA. Hill and Wang, 2006.
MURDERING MCKINLEY: THE MAKING OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S AMERICA. Hill and Wang, 2003.
THE REFUGE OF AFFECTIONS: FAMILY AND AMERICAN REFORM POLITICS, 1900-1920. Columbia University Press,
2001. Excerpted in Major Problems in American History, 2nd ed., 2007, ed. Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman and
Jon Gjerde.
review essays
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT. "Third Terms." On Franklin Roosevelt and the election of 1940. April 17, 2015, p.
24.
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT. "Missing Dates." On the stability of the global economy in the modern era. January
2, 2015, p. 9.
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT. "More of the Same, Please." On the Bretton Woods institutions from 1944 to the
present. July 18, 2014, p. 11.
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT. "Border Forces." On smuggling and US history. September 9, 2013, p. 5.
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT. "How the Soviets Saved Capitalism." On Bretton Woods. April 5, 2013, pp. 12-13.
DEMOCRACY. "We Might Overcome." On liberalism and leftism in US history. 25 (Summer 2012), 109-115.
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REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY. "What a Piece of Work is a Man." On the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. 40:2
(June 2012), 294-300.
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT. "A Bend in the Track." On railroads in US history. June 8, 2012, pp. 3-4.
CALIFORNIA HISTORY. "A Great Story, but Not a Good One." On the transcontinental railroad. 89:1 (December
2011), 51-60.
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT. "Black Vote." On an African American running for president in 1904. July 29, 2011,
p. 23. Translated as "Un siècle avant Obama, déjà..." in BOOKS, October 25, 2012.
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT. "Bomb Plots." On terrorism in the US circa 1910. October 30, 2009, pp. 5 and 7.
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT. "Real Estate Law." On new works of southern history. May 1, 2009, pp. 12-13.
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT. "To Build at All Costs." On the transcontinental railroad. January 2, 2009, p. 8.
JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN HISTORY. "Obituary: George M. Fredrickson." 74:3 (August 2008), 816-817.
REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY. "Empire of Ennui." Trade, globalization, and consumer culture. 36:2 (June 2008),
218-22.
SLATE. "FDR's Latest Critics." On New Deal revisionism. July 5, 2007.
REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY. "In Retrospect: Landmark Law Cases in American Society." 35:1 (March 2007),
155-63.
REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY. "Armchair Warriors." The middle-class progressive reform movement. 32:2 (June
2004), 223-30.
AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY. With Glenn C. Altschuler. "Presidential Biography and the Great Commoner
Complex." 16:2 (Summer 2004), 363-74.
REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY. "No Remedy Against this Consumption." Consumerism and politics. 31:3
(September 2003), 449-56.
REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY. "More Means Different: Quantifying American Exceptionalism." Immigration,
trade, and quantitative history. 30:3 (September 2002), 504-16.
JOURNAL OF THE GILDED AGE AND PROGRESSIVE ERA. "Star Power: The Hazards of Biography." Personality and
politics. 1:3 (July 2002), 279-88.
REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY. "Santa Only Brought Me the Blues: Family Holidays Old and New." History of
US holidays. 30:1 (March 2002), 98-105.
book chapters
MAKING THE AMERICAN CENTURY: ESSAYS ON THE POLITICAL CULTURE OF TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICA, ed.
Bruce J. Schulman. "Reflation and Recovery in the 1930s and Their Implications for the 2000s." 215-227.
Oxford University Press, 2014.
NARRATING PEOPLEHOOD AMIDST DIVERSITY: HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES, ed. Michael Böss.
"Nation, Region, and Immigration in US History, 1864-1924." 115-126. Aarhus University Press, 2011.
A COMPANION TO THE MODERN AMERICAN NOVEL 1900-1950, ed. John T. Matthews. "An Economic History of the
United States 1900-1950." 1-12. Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
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HERBERT CROLY’S THE PROMISE OF AMERICAN LIFE AT ITS CENTENARY, ed. John Allphin Moore, Jr. "Herbert
Croly’s Promise of American Life, The New Republic, and the Problem of Influence." 77-88. Cambridge
Scholars Publishing, 2009.
INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ed. Ha-Joon Chang. "The Role of Federalism in
Developing the US during Nineteenth-Century Globalization." 199-218. United Nations University Press,
2007.
THE AMERICAN CONGRESS: THE BUILDING OF DEMOCRACY, ed. Julian Zelizer. "The Transformation of the
Congressional Experience." 319-34. Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
A COMPANION TO 19TH-CENTURY AMERICA, ed. William L. Barney. "The Global Emergence of the United States,
1867-1900." 104-17. Blackwell, 2001.
reference articles
PRINCETON ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY, ed. Michael Kazin. "Globalization." 375-378.
Princeton University Press, 2010. Selected for the concise edition. 269-272. Princeton University Press,
2011.
PRINCETON ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY, ed. Michael Kazin. "Assassination, Presidential."
55-58. Princeton University Press, 2010.
DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN HISTORY, ed. Stanley Kutler. "The Progressive Movement." vol. 6, 494-498. Charles
Scribner’s Sons, 2003.
journal articles
PROCEEDINGS OF OENB WORKSHOPS. "Growth as a Means to Stability: The Consensus of Bretton Woods." 18
(February 27-28, 2014): 55-65.
DISSENT. "New Deal Denialism." Winter 2010, pp. 68-72.
NATURE. "Work for the Greater Good." On the New Deal and scientific research. April 2009, p. 1101.
WORLD AFFAIRS. "Postcards from the Frontier: Unmovable American Images." 170:4 (Spring 2008), 99-105.
JOURNAL OF THE GILDED AGE AND PROGRESSIVE ERA. "William McKinley and Us." 4:3 (July 2005), 235-53.
THE HISTORY TEACHER. With Glenn C. Altschuler. "The Virginia History Standards and the Cold War." 35:2
(February 2002), 225-28.
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY. "The High Cost of Living in the Progressives’ Economy." 88:3 (December 2001),
898-924.
AMERICAN STUDIES. "Regarding Henry: The Feminist Henry Adams." 40:3 (Fall 1999), 53-73.
JOURNAL OF WOMEN’S HISTORY. "A Gentlemen’s Club in a Woman’s Sphere: How Dorothy Whitney Straight
Created The New Republic." 11:2 (Summer 1999), 60-85.
THE PACIFIC HISTORICAL REVIEW. "Willard Straight and the Paradox of Liberal Imperialism." 66:3 (August 1997),
363-97.
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conference papers and public lectures
BRANCH/HOTCUS ANNUAL MEETING. University of Reading, England. "FDR, the Keynesian President." In panel,
US Capitalism and the World. September 6, 2014.
BRETTON WOODS: THE FOUNDERS AND THE FUTURE CONFERENCE OF THE CENTER FOR FINANCIAL STABILITY AT
BRETTON WOODS. "Leadership and Strategic Vision at Bretton Woods: Lessons for the Future" and "What
Have We Learned from Recent Research on Bretton Woods?" panels with Eric Helleiner and Kurt Schuler.
September 2-3, 2014.
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, ROTHERMERE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. "The Anti-fascist Dollar, 1934-1941." June 3, 2014.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, ECONOMIC HISTORY SEMINAR. "Going Off Gold and the Basis for Bretton
Woods." March 31, 2014.
CENTRAL BANK OF AUSTRIA AND THE REINVENTING BRETTON WOODS COMMITTEE, BRETTON WOODS @ 70
CONFERENCE. "Growth as a Means to Stability: The Consensus of Bretton Woods." February 27, 2014.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, GRADUATE WORKING GROUP ON INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS.
"Bretton Woods: US/Soviet Plans for Economic Growth and the Origins of the Cold War." May 8, 2012.
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, DEPARTMENTS OF ECONOMICS AND HISTORY, AND THE ROCKEFELLER CENTER. "Growth is
Better than Austerity: The Origins of Bretton Woods." May 1, 2012.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, POLITICAL HISTORY SEMINAR. "Promising Prosperity: The Campaign for Bretton Woods in
the USA, 1945." November 10, 2011.
OHIO UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON FORUM. "The New Deal Recovery." October 14, 2011.
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, ROTHERMERE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. "Bretton Woods and the Mistakes of the Past." May
31, 2011.
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY, RICHARD D. MCKINZIE SYMPOSIUM. "How Well Did the New Deal
Work?" Keynote address. March 10, 2011.
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, CHICO. "The Politics of Economic Decline: The New Deal." November 3, 2010.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY. "Colleges, Counterfactuals, and Reconstruction." September 16,
2009.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY. "Morrill’s Unpassed Act." September 14, 2009.
UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS, STORIES OF NATIONHOOD IN PLURAL SOCIETIES CONFERENCE. "Region, Nation, and
Immigration." Aarhus, May 14, 2009.
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, US HISTORY SEMINAR. "New Deal Revisionism Revisited."
PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE. "From Riches to Rags: Hollywood and the New Deal." April 1, 2009.
MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY HISTORY FORUM. "McKinley is Assassinated." March 7, 2009.
AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING. "New Perspectives on the US Role in the World during
the Gilded Age and Progressive Era." Chair and comment. January 2009.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, MODERN AMERICA WORKSHOP. "Periodizing the Gilded Age and Progressive Era." With
Jackson Lears. September 18, 2008.
AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING. "Author Meets Critics Roundtable: Rick
Perlstein’s Nixonland: The Rise of a President and Fall of the American Consensus." With Henry Farrell,
Paul Krugman, Nolan McCarty, and Rick Perlstein. August 2008.
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PACIFIC COAST BRANCH, AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING. "A Conservative Icon and the
Modern American President: President Ronald Reagan in Contemporary U.S. History." Roundtable.
August 2008.
ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS ANNUAL MEETING. "Does Liberalism Have a Usable Past?" With
Dorothy Sue Cobble, Thomas Edsall, Todd Gitlin, and Michael Kazin. March 2008.
CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, POMONA, CONFERENCE ON HERBERT CROLY’S PROMISE OF
AMERICAN LIFE AT ITS CENTENARY. "Willard and Dorothy Straight, The Promise of American Life, and the
Problem of Influence." January 11, 2008.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, INTERNATIONAL HISTORY SEMINAR AND WARREN CENTER. "The Nineteenth-Century U.S.
as a Developmental State." November 14, 2007.
BRANCH ANNUAL MEETING. "Reconstruction as a Policy of Development." October 13, 2007.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, HOW TO STAGE A REVOLUTION SEMINAR. "Reconstruction: A Second
American Revolution." April 23, 2007.
POLICY HISTORY CONFERENCE. "New Histories of the American State" and "The West and Public Policy." Chair and
comment. June 2006.
ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS ANNUAL MEETING. "Meaningful Violence: Presidential Assassins in
American History, Memory, and Art." Plenary session. Chair and Comment. April 2006.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RESEARCH AND POLICY. "Transnational and
Exceptional America: International Influences on American Politics around 1900." April 11, 2006.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, MILLER CENTER OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS. "Globalization and the Exceptional State in
America." November 3, 2005.
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, ROTHERMERE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. "Globalization and American Exceptionalism:
Investment Capital and Regulatory Policy." October 18, 2005.
BRANCH ANNUAL MEETING. "Globalization and American Exceptionalism: Progressive Social Spending in the
Cities." October 16, 2005.
UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY WORLD INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS RESEARCH, INSTITUTIONS AND
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MEETING. "The Role of Federalism in Developing the U.S. during NineteenthCentury Globalization." Helsinki, April 18, 2005.
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, COLLOQUIUM ON PROGRESSIVISM. "The Limits on Progressive Politics: An Exercise in
Deductive History." Clare College, May 13, 2004.
ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS ANNUAL MEETING. "The New Electorate and Progressive Policies, 18841917." In panel, "Rethinking the Gilded Age and Progressive Era." March 2004.
CANISIUS COLLEGE, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY. "Progressivism and the McKinley Assassination." February 9, 2004.
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, ROTHERMERE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. "Murdering McKinley: The Politics of Antianarchism." October 29, 2003.
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, US HISTORY SEMINAR. "Murdering McKinley: The Electoral Significance of
Progressivism." October 27, 2003.
AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING. "Inventing Value: From Hard Money to Virtual Dollars,
1897-1937." In panel, "Creating the ‘Cost of Living’: Consumption and American Political Economy."
January 2003.
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ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS ANNUAL MEETING. "When People are of Color: State Aims and the Uses
of Racism in American Asia." In panel, "Diffusing the State: Internationalizing America in the Twentieth
Century." April 1999.
AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING. "Competitive Imperialism: British and American Tutelage
in Open-Door China." In panel, "Empire as Education: British and American Teaching in the World."
January 1998.
selected honors
Fellowship Mentor, Miller Center of the University of Virginia
2014-2015
Visiting Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Trinity Term, 2011
Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians
2010-2013
Distinguished Teaching Award, Academic Senate, UC Davis
2010
Cliopatria Award, Best Group Blog (for The Edge of the American West)
2008
Top Young Historian, History News Network
2007
Chancellor's Fellow, University of California, Davis
2003-2008
MA by Special Resolution of Congregation, University of Oxford
1998
Phi Beta Kappa
1991
selected appointments
Co-chair, Program Committee, Annual Meeting, Organization of American Historians
2016
Co-director, "The Transcontinental Railroad," NEH Summer Institute
2013 and 2015
Interim Associate Vice Provost, Undergraduate Education and Director, University Honors
Program
2014-2015
Senate Committee on Courses of Instruction
2014-2015
Senate Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility
2013-2016
Division of Social Sciences Steering Committee
2013
Senate Committee on Administrative Oversight
2012-2013
UC Task Force on 11/18 (Reynoso Commission on Pepper-Spraying)
2012
Ellis Hawley Prize Committee, Organization of American Historians
2012
College of Letters & Science Executive Committee
2009-2012
Director, Center for History, Society, and Culture
2007-2010
Final selection panelist, American Council of Learned Societies
2008, 2009, 2010
Chair, Letters & Science Committee on Educational Policy
2005-2007
Council Member, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
2005-2008
Editorial Board, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
2004-2008
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selected courses taught
Introduction to historiography and methods (graduate seminar)
World War II
America in the 1960s
The Gilded Age and Progressive Era
The US, 1917-1945
Introduction to US History since 1865
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