Caroline Winterer is an American historian. She is the William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies at Stanford University. She is also Professor, by courtesy, of Classics. From 2013 to 2019, she was Director of the Stanford Humanities Center. She received her B.A. from Pomona College and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

Her expertise is American history before 1900, especially the history of ideas, political theory, and the history of science.

Books

  • . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024.
  • . The Great Courses, 2024.
  • .Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. edited with Karen Wigen.
  • New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016, ISBN 0-3001-9257-6
  • "What Was the American Enlightenment?" in The Worlds of American Intellectual History, eds. Joel Isaac, James Kloppenberg, and Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, Oxford University Press, 2016 (ISBN forthcoming)
  • (Stanford: Stanford University Libraries, 2011), ISBN 0-9112-2145-X
  • (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007; pb 2009), ISBN 0-8014-4163-3
  • (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002; pb 2004), ISBN 0-8018-6799-1

Awards

  • American Ingenuity Award, Smithsonian Institution, for mapping the social network of Benjamin Franklin (2013)

Notes

External links

  • Featured in Smithsonian Magazine:
  • "'Enlightenment': America's Semantic Shield for the Cold War," The Takeaway (WNYC) (Oct. 26, 2016):
  • "Stanford Historian Makes Case for American 'Enlightenments,'" Forum (KQED) (Nov. 30, 2016):