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Casey N. Blake

Professor and Director of American Studies
504 Fayerweather Hall
Mail Code: 2518


Phone
work: +1 212 854 1785


Email
cb460@columbia.edu

Office Hours
Mondays, 1:30-3:30 p.m.

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Casey N. Blake
Professor and Director of American Studies
Columbia University

History

URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/amstudies/

Biography
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 received his B.A. from Wesleyan University (1978) and his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester (1987). He has edited The Arts of Democracy: Art, Public Culture, and the State (2007). He is also the author of Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford (1990) and many articles in scholarly publications and journals of opinion. He is completing a volume of collected essays, Crisis of Confidence: Politics, Culture, and Social Thought in the 1970s, and a book manuscript entitled “Public Art and the Civic Imagination in Modernist America.”

 

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