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THEODORE K. RABB

Theodore K. Rabb is Professor of History at Princeton University . He received his Ph.D. from Princeton, and subsequently taught at Stanford, Northwestern, Harvard, and Johns Hopkins Universities . He has received awards from many supporters of the humanities, including the Delmas, Ford, Pew, and Guggenheim Foundations; he has written numerous articles; he has reviewed for, The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books, The Saturday Review, Commentary, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The American Historical Review, Science, Nature, American Journal of Sociology, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Opera News , and other journals; and he has been editor of The Journal of Interdisciplinary History since its foundation. Among the books he has written or edited are:

  • Enterprise and Empire (Harvard, 1967)
  • The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europe ( Oxford , 1975)
  • The New History ( Princeton , 1982)
  • Climate and History ( Cambridge , 1984)
  • Renaissance Lives (Pantheon, 1993, revised Basic Books, 2001)
  • Jacobean Gentleman ( Princeton , 1998)
  • The Making and Unmaking of Democracy (Routledge, 2002)

Professor Rabb has held offices in various national and public organizations, including the American Historical Association, National History Day, and the Social Science History Association, and has been a consultant to over two dozen colleges and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His conference papers, teaching, and public lectures have taken him from Stockholm to Venice , from Jerusalem to San Francisco . He was the principal historical advisor for the five-part PBS television series Renaissance , nominated for an Emmy following its national broadcast from January to March 1993; and also for the telecourse, The Renaissance: Origins of the Modern West , broadcast nationally by the PBS Adult Learning Service and adopted by over 100 colleges in all 50 states. A contributor to the Bradley Commission's 1990 report, Historical Literacy: The Case for History in American Education, he has also been Chair of the Trustees of the National Council for History Education. His recent activities include his chairmanship of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities and his membership of the Commission that issued the National History Standards.