Thomas “Tom” Laker ( Thomas W. Laqueur ; born September 6, 1945, Istanbul, Turkey) - American historian , recognized specialist in cultural history, specialist in British and European history from 1650 to the 20th century. EMERIT Professor of the University of California at Berkeley, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999) and the American Philosophical Society (2015) [2] .
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Biography
Born in a family of refugees from Nazi Germany. He graduated with honors from Sworthmore College (Bachelor of Philosophy), where he studied in 1963-1967, and also with honors from Princeton University (Master), where he studied in 1967–68. In the latter, studying there for this in 1969–71, he received a Ph.D. in 1973 with a dissertation entitled “Religion and Respectability: Sunday Schools and Working Class Culture, 1780-1850”. In 1971-1973 studied at Oxford. Since 1973, an assistant, associate, full professor of history, a professor of history ( Helen Fawcett Professor ) of history, Distinguished , now emirits. In 1992-1995 Director of the University Townsend Center for the Humanities, in 2003-2004 him and. about. directors. Co-founder and co-chairman of the editorial board of Representations . The author of many works. He writes regularly for the London Review of Books and Threepenny Review , and is also published, among other things, in Slate magazine. He is currently working on the book How Dogs Make Us Human [3] .
His wife Carla Hesse also works at the University of California at Berkeley [4] .
Awards and honors
- Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (1967–68)
- Fello, National Endowment for the Humanities (1976–77, 1990–1991)
- Rockefeller Scholarship (1983–84)
- Guggenheim Scholarship (1990–91)
- Distinguished Visiting Humanist, Northwestern University Center for the Humanities (1993)
- Darwin Lecture, Cambridge (1999)
- Open Society Grant (2002-2003)
- Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award (2007) [5]
- (2016)
- (2016)
- (2018)
Books
- Religion and Respectability: Sunday Schools and Working Class Culture, 1780-1850 (Yale University Press, 1976)
- and Thomas Laqueur, edited with introduction, The Making of the Modern Body (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987)
- Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud (Harvard University Press, 1990)
- Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation (ZONE BOOKS, 2003)
- The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains (Princeton University Press, 2015) - marked by and , as well as (2018) [3]
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- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 112639305 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Newly Elected - April 2015 | American philosophical society
- ↑ 1 2 History professor's 'Work of the Dead' wins 2018 Shannon Prize | Berkeley news
- ↑ Long Live the Dead | Berkeley social science
- ↑ 01.03.2008 - Professor wins Mellon prize for influential unconventional research