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Biography
Education
Ph.D. - University of Rochester 1987
M.A. - University of Rochester 1981
B.A. - Wesleyan University 1978
Interests and Research
Casey Nelson Blake, professor, specializes in modern U.S. intellectual and cultural history and American studies, with an emphasis on topics at the intersection of modernist art and politics in the twentieth century. He is also a faculty member in the American Studies program.
Affiliations
Editor, book series on “The Arts and Intellectual Life in the United States,” University of Pennsylvania Press (2003-)
Member, Board of Advisory Editors, American Quarterly (2005-2008)
Editor, Co-Editor, Intellectual History Newsletter (1995-2001)
Member, Advisory Board, Rethinking History (1996-)
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, culturefront (1995-2000)
Member, Board of Managing Editors, American Quarterly (1994-95)
Associate Editor, Journal of American History (1991-93)
Teaching
Courses
US Intellectual History, from 1865 to the present
American Cultural Criticism
Awards
Fulbright Senior Lectureship in U.S. Intellectual History, University of Rome - 2006
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship - 2001-02
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellowship, CASVA, National Gallery of Art - 2001-02
OAH-Japan Short-term Exchange, Tsuda College - June-July 1999
Short-term Visiting Fellowship, National Museum of American Art - Summer 1996
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellowship - 1994-95
Best “Electronic Product—Humanities” for online electronic seminar, “U.S. Intellectual and Cultural History, 1890-1945,” by the Association of American Publishers - 1993
"Outstanding Academic Book" by Choice for Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford – 1992
Selected Publications
Books
Public Art and the Civic Imagination in Modernist America (forthcoming)
Crisis of Confidence: Politics, Culture and Social Thought in the 1970s (forthcoming)
The Arts of Democracy: Art, Public Culture, and the State
Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford
Scholarly Articles
"The Modernist Moment in Federal Public Art," in A Modern Mosaic, 2000
"Private Life and Public Commitment: From Walter Rauschenbusch to Richard Rorty," in
A Pragmatist’s Progress? Placing Richard Rorty in the History of Pragmatism, 2000
“Lewis Mumford, Insurgent,” in Art and Technics, 2000
“What’s Pragmatism Got to do with It?” in The Pragmatist Imagination. Thinking about Things in the Making, 2000
"An Atmosphere of Effrontery: Richard Serra, 'Tilted Arc,' and the Crisis of Public Art," in The Power of Culture: Critical Essays in American History, pp. 246-89, 1993
"Memorial: Lewis Mumford (1895-1990)," in Technology and Culture Vol. 32, 187-90, Jan 1991
"The Perils of Personality: Lewis Mumford and Politics after Liberalism," in Lewis Mumford: Public Intellectual, pp. 283-300, 1990 - Reprinted in Pragmatism: From Progressivism to Postmodernism, pp. 88-106, 1995
"The Young Intellectuals and the Culture of Personality," in American Literary History 1, 3, pp. 510-34, Fall 1989
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