Caroline Winterer
William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies, Professor of History and, by courtesy, of Classics and of Education
Web page: https://history.stanford.edu/people/caroline-winterer
Bio
Caroline Winterer is William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies, and Professor by courtesy of Classics. She specializes in American history before 1900, especially the history of ideas, political thought, and the history of science.
She teaches classes on American history until 1900, including American cultural and intellectual history, the American Enlightenment, and the history of science.
She is the author of six books, including most recently How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America (Princeton University Press, 2024).
She is currently accepting graduate students. For more information on the PhD program in the Department of History, visit: https://history.stanford.edu/academics/graduate-degree-programs.
Academic Appointments
-
Professor, History
-
Professor (By courtesy), Graduate School of Education
-
Professor (By courtesy), Classics
Administrative Appointments
-
Chair, Department of History (2020 - Present)
-
William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies, Department of History, Stanford University (2019 - Present)
-
Director, Stanford Humanities Center (2013 - 2019)
-
Anthony P. Meier Family Professor in the Humanities, Stanford Humanities Center (2013 - 2019)
-
Professor, Department of Classics, Stanford University (2011 - Present)
-
Professor, Department of History, Stanford University (2010 - Present)
-
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Stanford University (2004 - 2008)
-
Associate Professor, Department of History, Stanford University (2008 - 2010)
-
Assistant Professor, Department of History, San Jose State University (1998 - 2004)
-
Associate Professor, Department of History, San Jose State University (1998 - 2004)
-
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Northwestern University (1997 - 1998)
Honors & Awards
-
Elected Member, Society of American Historians ("for literary distinction in the writing of history") (2019)
-
Elected Member, American Antiquarian Society (2016)
-
Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians (2015-2021)
-
Marta Sutton Weeks Faculty Scholar, Stanford University (2013 - 2016)
-
American Ingenuity Award, Smithsonian Institution (2013)
-
Lester J. Cappon Prize, William and Mary Quarterly, Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture (2011)
-
Faculty Research Fellow, Michelle R. Clayman Institute, Stanford University (2009 - 2010)
-
Gordon and Dailey Pattee Faculty Fellow, Stanford University (2009 - 2010)
-
Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center (2008 - 2009)
-
William and Frances Green Faculty Fellow, Stanford (2005 - 2006)
-
Fellow, National Humanities Center (2003 - 2004)
-
Fellow, Howard Foundation, Brown University (2003 - 2004)
-
New Scholar’s Book Award for The Culture of Classicism, American Educational Research Association (2003)
-
Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Humanities, Northwestern University (1998 - 1999)
-
Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow, The National Academy of Education (1998 - 1999)
-
Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellow, ACLS (1995 - 1996)
-
Fellowship, University of Michigan Alumni (1994 - 1995)
-
Rackham Predoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan (1994 - 1995)
-
Scholarship, University of Michigan Alumnae Council (1994)
-
Candidacy Fellow, Andrew W. Mellon (1993)
-
Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Michigan (1993)
-
John H. Kemble Senior Thesis Prize in History, Pomona College (1988)
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
-
Chair, Search Committee, 19th-Century U.S. (2016 - 2017)
-
Chair, Search Committee, Native American History (2016 - 2017)
-
Advisory Board, Society for U.S. Intellectual History (2015 - Present)
-
Advisory Board, University of Pennsylvania Press, Intellectual History of the Modern Age Series (2015 - Present)
-
Chair, Search Committee, Early American History, Stanford (2014 - 2015)
-
Digital Humanities Outside Reviewer, John Carter Brown Library, (Brown University) (2014 - 2014)
-
Member, Denning Fund in Digital Humanities Selection Committee, Stanford (2013 - Present)
-
Member, Advisory Committee, Interdisciplinary Honors Program in the Arts, Stanford (2013 - 2014)
-
Member, Humanities Curriculum Committee, H&S, Stanford (2013 - 2014)
-
Member, Library Digital Humanities Selection Committee (2013 - 2014)
-
Associate Editor, Oxford Encyclopedia of American Intellectual and Cultural History (2013 - 2013)
-
Editorial Board Member, Reviews in American History (2009 - Present)
-
Advisory Board Member, Stanford Humanities Center (2009 - 2013)
-
Editorial Board Member, Modern Intellectual History (2008 - Present)
-
Editorial Board Member, Palgrave series in Intellectual and Cultural History (2008 - 2013)
Program Affiliations
-
American Studies
-
Program in History & Philosophy of Science
Professional Education
-
Ph.D., University of Michigan, History (1996)
-
A.M., University of Michigan, History (1991)
-
B.A., Pomona College, History (1988)
2024-25 Courses
- Core in American History, Part II
HISTORY 351B (Aut) - The History of Ideas in America, Part I (to 1900)
AMSTUD 154 (Spr) - The History of Ideas in America, Part I (to 1900)
AMSTUD 54 (Spr) - The History of Ideas in America, Part I (to 1900)
HISTORY 154 (Spr) - The History of Ideas in America, Part I (to 1900)
HISTORY 54 (Spr) - What is Nature? Discovering the History of Nature at Stanford
HISTORY 4N (Spr) -
Independent Studies (7)
- Curricular Practical Training
HISTORY 299F (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Graduate Directed Reading
HISTORY 399W (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Graduate Research
HISTORY 499X (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Senior Research I
HISTORY 299A (Aut, Win, Spr) - Senior Research II
HISTORY 299B (Aut, Win, Spr) - Senior Research III
HISTORY 299C (Aut, Win, Spr) - Undergraduate Directed Research and Writing
HISTORY 299S (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Curricular Practical Training
-
Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- Colonial and Revolutionary America
AMSTUD 150A, HISTORY 150A (Aut) - Colonial and Revolutionary America
HISTORY 50A (Aut) - MLA Practicum: Thinking Like a Historian in Three Different Ways
MLA 200P (Aut) - The Ape Museum: Exploring the Idea of the Ape in Global History, Science, Art and Film
GLOBAL 41Q, HISTORY 41Q (Win) - What is Nature? Discovering the History of Nature at Stanford
HISTORY 4N (Aut)
2022-23 Courses
- SoCo Humanities Research Intensive
HISTORY 30SC (Sum) - The American Enlightenment
MLA 295 (Win) - The History of Ideas in America, Part I (to 1900)
AMSTUD 154 (Aut) - The History of Ideas in America, Part I (to 1900)
AMSTUD 54 (Aut) - The History of Ideas in America, Part I (to 1900)
HISTORY 154 (Aut) - The History of Ideas in America, Part I (to 1900)
HISTORY 54 (Aut) - Why College? Your Education and the Good Life
COLLEGE 101 (Aut)
2021-22 Courses
- Colonial and Revolutionary America
AMSTUD 150A, HISTORY 150A (Aut) - Colonial and Revolutionary America
HISTORY 50A (Aut) - Core in American History, Part I
HISTORY 351A (Aut) - Doing History: Beyond the Book
HISTORY 200U (Spr)
- Colonial and Revolutionary America
Stanford Advisees
-
Ray Bramson, Kelly Harrison, Astrid Schell -
Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Austin Clements -
Orals Chair
Rachel Dubit -
Orals Evaluator
Max Fennell-Chametzky, Courtney MacPhee -
Doctoral (Program)
Serena Shah
All Publications
- How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America Princeton University Press. 2024
- “History: Narratives of Progress.” A Cultural History of Ideas in the Age of Enlightenment, ed. Jack Censer. London: Bloomsbury Academic Press. 2021
- “Enlightened Despotism and the American Revolution: The Political Thought of Frederick the Great of Prussia.” Political Thought and the Origins of the American Presidency, ed. Ben Lowe Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2021. 2021: 98–124
- Time in Maps: From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era edited by Winterer, C., Wigen, K. University of Chicago Press. 2020
-
DEMOCRATIC VISTAS
MODERN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
2019; 16 (2): 599–605
View details for DOI 10.1017/S1479244317000439
View details for Web of Science ID 000474914900010
- Washington Post, review of Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (2018). Feb. 23, 2018: http://wapo.st/2EOhmgG?tid=ss_mail Washington Post. 2018
- "Historical Research in a Digital Age: Refllections on the Mapping the Republic of Letters Project" American HIstorical Review 2017; 2 (2017): 400-424
-
The Importance of Being Ideological
Eighteenth-Century Studies
2017; 50 (3): 308-14
View details for DOI 10.1353/ecs.2017.0016
- “The Aquarial View: Taking Things Seriously in the History of Ideas.” Society for U.S. Intellectual HIstory Classics Series 2016: http://s-usih.org/2016/08/the-aquarial-view-taking-things-seriously-in-the-history-of-ideas.html
- American Enlightenments: Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History Yale University Press. 2016
- "What Was the American Enlightenment?" The Worlds of American Intellectual History Oxford University Press. 2016: 19–36
- Classicism Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment edited by Spencer, M. Thoemmes. 2014
- Classicism Oxford Encyclopedia of American Intellectual and Cultural History Oxford University Press. 2013
- The U.S. Founders and Cyrus the Great of Persia (Book Review of Cyropaedia) Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies 2013
-
WHERE IS AMERICA IN THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS?
MODERN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
2012; 9 (3): 597-623
View details for DOI 10.1017/S1479244312000212
View details for Web of Science ID 000310635500004
- Phillis Wheatley The Virgil Encyclopedia edited by Thomas, R., Ziolkowski, J. M. Wiley-Blackwell. 2011
- The American Enlightenment: Treasures from the Stanford University Libraries Stanford University Library. 2011
- Classical Taste at Monticello: The Case of Thomas Jefferson's Daughter and Granddaughters Thomas Jefferson, the Classical World and Early America edited by Onuf, P., Cole, N. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 2011: 78–98
- The American Enlightenment: Treasures from the Stanford University Libraries Stanford: Stanford University Libraries. 2011
- Thomas Jefferson and the Ancient World A Companion to Thomas Jefferson, Blackwell Companions to American History Series edited by Cogliano, F. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. 2011: 380–396
-
Model Empire, Lost City: Ancient Carthage and the Science of Politics in Revolutionary America
WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY
2010; 67 (1): 3-30
View details for Web of Science ID 000275027400001
- Fraternities and Sororities The Classical Tradition edited by Grafton, A., Most, G., Settis, S. Harvard University Press. 2010
- Why Did American Women Read the Aeneid? A Companion to Vergil’s Aeneid and Its Tradition, Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World series edited by Putnam, M., Farrel, J. Wiley-Blackwell. 2010: 366–375
- The Universal Freckle Common-Place 2009; 9 (3)
- Victorian Antigone: Classicism and Women’s Education in America, 1840-1900 American Women and Classical Myths edited by Staley, G. Baylor University Press. 2009: 159–179
- The Mirror of Antiquity; American Women and the Classical Tradition, 1750-1900 (Paperback) Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2009
-
Women and Civil Society: Introduction
JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC
2008; 28 (1): 23-28
View details for Web of Science ID 000208343300002
- The Big Picture: The Ancient Mediterranean in Early America Common-Place 2008; 8 (4)
- The Female World of Classical Reading in Eighteenth-Century America Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800 edited by Hackel, H., Kelly, C. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2007: 105–123
- The Mirror of Antiquity: American Women and the Classical Tradition, 1750 - 1900 Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2007
- Is There an Intellectual History of Early American Women? Modern Intellectual History 2007; 4 (1): 173 - 190
- Classical Oratory and Fears of Demagoguery in Antebellum America Classical Antiquity and the Politics of America edited by Meckler, M. Baylor University Press. 2006: 41–53
-
From royal to republican: The classical image in early America
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY
2005; 91 (4): 1264-1290
View details for Web of Science ID 000240381500002
- Venus on the Sofa: Women, Neoclassicism, and the Early American Republic Modern Intellectual History 2005: 29 - 60
- Republican Art Wilson Quarterly 2005: 104 - 105
- The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910 (Paperback) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2004
- John Clarke (1687-1734) Dictionary of British Classicists, 1500-1960 edited by Todd, R. Bristol: Thoemmes Press. 2004
-
The culture of classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American intellectual life, 1780-1910 (Book Review)
NEW REPUBLIC
2002; 227 (19): 27-31
View details for Web of Science ID 000178882300014
- The Problem of the Past in the Modern University: Catholics and Classicists, 1860-1900 History of Education Quarterly 2002; 42: 518-545
- The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910 Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2002
- The American School of Classical Studies at Athens: Scholarship and High Culture in the Gilded Age edited by Allen, S. 2002: 93–104
-
Victorian Antigone: Classicism and women's education in America, 1840-1900
AMERICAN QUARTERLY
2001; 53 (1): 70-93
View details for Web of Science ID 000167939600003
- The Humanist Revolution in America, 1820-1860: Classical Antiquity in the Colleges History of Higher Education Annual 1998; 18: 111 - 129
-
A HAPPY MEDIUM - THE SOCIOLOGY OF COOLEY,CHARLES,HORTON
JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
1994; 30 (1): 19-27
View details for Web of Science ID A1994MY57900002
-
AVOIDING A HOTHOUSE SYSTEM OF EDUCATION - 19TH-CENTURY EARLY-CHILDHOOD EDUCATION FROM THE INFANT SCHOOLS TO THE KINDERGARTENS
HISTORY OF EDUCATION QUARTERLY
1992; 32 (3): 289-314
View details for Web of Science ID A1992JQ13600001