Alan Charles Kors
Alan Charles Kors (* in Jersey City , New Jersey ) is an American historian .
Life
Kors studied at Princeton University , where he received a Bachelor of Arts Summa Cum Laude in history in 1964 . He then continued his studies at Harvard University , where he received a Master of Arts in European history in 1965 and a Ph.D. In European history doctorate .
From 1968, Kors began teaching at the University of Pennsylvania , first from 1968 to 1973 as an assistant professor of history, then from 1974 to 1988 as an associate professor of history and finally since 1988 as a professor of history. As such, he had the 2004-2009 Chair George H. Walker Endowed Term Chair in History held and since 2009 Henry Charles Lea Professor of History .
From 1989 to 1990 he was on the editorial board of the University of Pennsylvania Press . From 1992 to 1998 he was a member of the National Council on the Humanities . In addition, he was a member of the Board of Editors of the journal Eighteenth-Century Life from 1993 to 1998 . Kors co-founded the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and served as president of the organization from 1999 to 2006. In 2002, he was editor in chief (Editor-in-Chief) in the publication of the four-volume Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment . Since 2006 he has been a member of the Board of Editors of the journal Diderot Studies .
In 2005 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal . In 2008 he received the Bradley Prize from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and the Jeane Kirkpatrick Award for Defense of Academic Freedom .
Publications (selection)
- with Edward Peters (Ed.): Witchcraft in Europe 1100-1700: A Documentary History (1972, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press)
- with Edward Peters (Ed.): Witchcraft in Europe 400-1700 (2001, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, revised version)
- D'Holbach's Coterie: An Enlightenment in Paris (1976, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press)
- (Ed.): Anticipations of the Enlightenment in England, France and Germany. (1987, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press)
- Atheism in France, 1650-1729: The Orthodox Sources of Disbelief. (1990, Princeton: Princeton University Press)
- with Harvey A. Silverglate: The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses (1998, New York: The Free Press)
- (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (2002, 4 volumes, New York: Oxford University Press )
- Naturalism and Unbelief in Early-Modern France (2016, New York, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press )
- Epicureans and Atheists in Early-Modern France (2016, New York, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
Web links
- Curriculum Vitae on the website of the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kors, Alan Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jersey City , New Jersey |