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Caroline Winterer

Associate Professor

E-mail: cwinterer@stanford.edu

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At Stanford Since 2004

Ph.D., University of Michigan, History A.M., University of Michigan, History B.A., cum laude, Pomona College, History

Research Interests

  • Cultural and intellectual history, American and transatlantic, pre-20th century.
  • Art and material culture
  • Reception of antiquity

Courses Taught

  • 51N: The American Enlightenment
  • 150a: Colonial and Revolutionary America (lecture)
  • 154: U.S. Intellectual and Cultural History, 1790-1865 (lecture)
  • 351b: Graduate Core Colloquium in U.S. History (1788-1865)
  • 475: Graduate Research Seminar, U.S. Cultural and Intellectual History, 18th and 19th centuries

Recent Publications

Books

Winterer book coverThe Mirror of Antiquity: American Women and the Classical Tradition, 1750-1900 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007).

 

 

Winterer bookcoverThe Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002). Paperback reprint, 2004. Winner of the 2003 New Scholar’s Award from the American Educational Research Association.

 

Articles and Book Chapters

  • “Model Empire, Lost City: Ancient Carthage and the Science of Politics in Revolutionary America," William and Mary Quarterly (forthcoming Jan. 2010).
  • “Why Did American Women Read the Aeneid?” in A Companion to Vergil’s Aeneid and Its Tradition (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World series), ed. Michael Putnam and Joseph Farrell (forthcoming, Wiley-Blackwell).
  • “The Universal Freckle,” Common-Place 9, 3 (April 2009).
  • "The Big Picture: The Ancient Mediterranean in Early America," Common-place, 8, 4 (July 2008).
  • "Women and Civil Society: Introduction," Journal of the Early Republic, 28 (Spring 2008): 23-28.
  • “The Female World of Classical Reading in Eighteenth-Century America,” in Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800, ed. Heidi Hackel and Catherine Kelly (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007): 105-23.
  • “Is There an Intellectual History of Early American Women?” Modern Intellectual History 4, 1 (April 2007): 173-90.
  • “Classical Oratory and Fears of Demagoguery in Antebellum America,” in Classical Antiquity and the Politics of America, ed. Michael Meckler (Baylor University Press, 2006): 41-53.
  • “From Royal to Republican: The Classical Image in Early America,” Journal of American History 91 (March 2005): 1264-90. Excerpted as “Republican Art,” Wilson Quarterly (Sum. 2005): 104-5.
  • “From Royal to Republican: The Classical Image in Early America,” invited selection for “Teaching the JAH” (March 2005), a section of the /Journal of American History/ that suggests how to connect new scholarship to undergraduate courses:
  • Interview: National Public Radio, “Reviving Ancient Greece” (WBEZ-Chicago), 3 May 2005:
  • “Venus on the Sofa: Women, Neoclassicism, and the Early American Republic,” Modern Intellectual History 2, 1 (April 2005): 29-60.
  • “The Problem of the Past in the Modern University: Catholics and Classicists, 1860-1900,” History of Education Quarterly 42 (2002): 518-45 (with K. Mahoney).
  • “The American School of Classical Studies at Athens: Scholarship and High Culture in the Gilded Age,” in Susan Allen, ed., Excavating Our Past: Perspectives on the History of the Archaeological Institute of America. AIA Colloquia and Conference Papers 5 (Boston: AIA, 2002): 93-104.
  • “Victorian Antigone: Classicism and Women’s Education in America, 1840-1900,” American Quarterly 53 (March 2001): 70-93.
  • “The Humanist Revolution in America, 1820-1860: Classical Antiquity in the Colleges,” History of Higher Education Annual 18 (1998): 111-29.
  • “Avoiding a ‘Hothouse System of Education’: Nineteenth-Century Early Childhood Education from the Infant Schools to the Kindergartens,” History of Education Quarterly 32 (Fall 1992): 288-314. Second place, Henry Barnard prize of the HEQ for best essay by a graduate student.

Selected Fellowships and Awards

  • Presidential Fund for Innovation in the Humanities, Stanford University: “Mapping the Republic of Letters” (2008-11)
  • Gordon and Dailey Pattee Faculty Fellow, Stanford University, 2009-10
  • Faculty Research Fellow, Clayman Institute, Stanford University, 2009-10
  • Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center, 2008-9
  • William H. and Frances Green Faculty Fellow, Stanford University, 2005-6
  • Fellow, National Humanities Center, 2003-4
  • Fellow, Howard Foundation, Brown University, 2003-4
  • NEH Summer Seminar, Stanford University, 2002
  • Spencer Foundation Small Grant, 2000-1
  • Spencer Foundation Collaborative Research Grant, 2000
  • NEH Summer Seminar, Princeton University, 1999
  • Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow, 1998-99
  • Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Humanities, Northwestern University, 1998-99
  • Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellow, 1995-96
  • Rackham Predoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan, 1994-95
  • University of Michigan Alumni Fellowship, 1994-95
  • University of Michigan Alumnae Council Scholarship, 1994
  • Rackham Dissertation Research Grant, University of Michigan, 1994
  • Andrew W. Mellon Candidacy Fellow, 1993
  • Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Michigan, 1993
  • John H. Kemble Senior Thesis Prize in History, Pomona College, 1988

Professional Service

  • Advisory Board, Stanford Humanities Center, 2009-12
  • Co-Director, Seminar on Enlightenment and Revolution, Stanford University, 2009-10
  • Editorial board, Reviews in American History, 2009-
  • Editorial board, Modern Intellectual History, 2008-
  • Advisory board, Palgrave series in Intellectual and Cultural History, 2008-
  • Committee on the Classical Tradition, American Philological Association, 2008-11