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