Thomas Bender is University Professor of the Humanities and professor of history at New York University. His work has focused on the history of cities, intellectuals, and academic disciplines, and he has been honored with the OAH Frederick Jackson Turner Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Currently, he is exploring ways of developing narratives of American history, the subject of the La Pietra Report (2000) and Rethinking American History in a Global Age (2002). Most recently, he is the coauthor of The Education of Historians for the Twenty-first Century (2004), author of A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History (2006), and coeditor of The Transformation of American Higher Education, 1945-2000: Documenting the National Discourse (2008).

Lecture topics:

• Rethinking American History in a Global Age
• Putting U.S. History into World History
• New York and the Culture of Creativity

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