Jonathan Strassfeld
PhD, 2020
Advisor: Robert Westbrook
Major Fields: American History, The Social History of Ideas
Minor Fields: American Intellectual History, Modernity and Modernism
- jstrass6@jh.edu
- Web Address
Research Interests
My current research focuses on the history of phenomenology in American philosophy. More broadly, I am interested in the history of American philosophy and higher education. My approach to these topics draws on the techniques of both intellectual and social history to question how institutions affect the development and influence of ideas.
Dissertation
Phenomenology and American Philosophy
Education
AB Philosophy, Princeton University 2009
Selected Publications
- (University of Chicago Press, 2022)
- “‘,” Journal of The History of Ideas 83, no. 4 (2022): 579-600.
- “,’” Modern Intellectual History 17, no. 3 (2020): 833–66.
- "Continental Divide or American Divide? Twentieth-Century Philosophy and the American University," History of Education Society 56th Annual Meeting. Providence, November 2016.
- "Phenomenology in World War II America: Foundations to Isolation." Society for US Intellectual History Annual Conference. Stanford University, October 2016.
- "Quantitative and Computational Approaches to Intellectual History." History Department Workshop, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳, February 18, 2016.
Teaching
- History 193: "America Works: A Labor History of The United States," Instructor, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳, Summer 2016
- History 191: "Vietnam: The American War," Instructor, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳, Spring 2016, syllabus
- History 202: "Health, Medicine, and Social Reform," Teaching Assistant for Theodore Brown, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳, Spring 2015
- History 160: "United States History to 1865," Teaching Assistant for Daniel Borus, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳, Fall 2014
Honors
- Raymond N. Ball Fellowship, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳, 2018-2019
- Henry F. May Award, Society for US Intellectual History, 2016
- Edward Peck Curtis, Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳, 2016.
- Meyers Graduate Teaching Prize, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ History Department, 2016
- Dexter Perkins Prize, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ History Department, 2015
- Sproull Fellowship, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳, 2012-2015
- Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics and Social Philosophy, Princeton University, 2009