Academic Degrees

  • A. B. cum laude, Smith College, 1966. Phi Beta Kappa.
  • Ph.D. Harvard University, 1973

Professional Experience

  • Williams College, Massachusetts Professor of Humanities, 1973 to present
  • Wellesley College, Instructor, 1971-1973
  • Harvard University, Extension Division, Instructor, 1970-1973
  • Harvard University, Teaching Fellow, 1967-1970

Honors And Fellowships

  • Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History for "Roosevelt's Purge"
  • Winner of the 2010 Henry Adams Prize, Society for History in the Federal Government, for "Roosevelt's Purge" (Harvard University Press)
  • Fellow of the Society of American Historians
  • Nelson Bushnell Prize for  Excellence in Writing and Teaching, Williams College, 2011
  • D. Litt., Westfield State University, 2010
  • Senior Scholar, James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, University of Maryland.
  • Senior Fellowship for College Teachers, National Endowment
    for the Humanities, calendar year 1997
  • Associate in the University Seminar on Eighteenth-Century
    European Culture at Columbia University, 1991
  • Senior Fellowship for College Teachers, National Endowment
    for the Humanities, calendar year 1990
  • Visiting Scholar, Institute on Western Europe,
    Columbia University, 1985-86
  • American Philosophical Society Research Grant, 1985-1986
  • National Endowment for the Humanities, Travel Grant,
    1985
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer
    Stipend, 1985
  • Camargo Foundation, Fellow in Residence, Cassis,
    France, 1981
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in
    Residence at Princeton University, 1975-1976
  • Various Research Grants, Williams College
  • Mellon Funded Released Time, Williams College,
    Spring, 1979
  • Scholarships from Harvard University and Radcliffe
    College, 1968-1971
  • Phi Beta Kappa, Smith College, 1966