Background
Spadafora, David Charles was born on June 4, 1951 in Hamilton, Ohio, United States. Son of Samuel Charles and Dorothy Spadafora.
(The idea of progress stood at the very center of the inte...)
The idea of progress stood at the very center of the intellectual world of eighteenth-century Britain, closely linked to every major facet of the British Enlightenment as well as to the economic revolutions of the period. Drawing on hundreds of eighteenth-century books and pamphlets, David Spadafora here provides the most extensive discussion ever written of this prevailing sense of historical optimism.
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Spadafora, David Charles was born on June 4, 1951 in Hamilton, Ohio, United States. Son of Samuel Charles and Dorothy Spadafora.
Bachelor, Williams College, 1972. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1981. D of Letters (honorary), Lake Forest College, 2001.
Instructor Simon's Rock College, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, 1977-1978. Lecturer University Connecticut, West Hartford, 1978-1980. Research analyst Connecticut General Assembly, Hartford, 1980-1981.
Dean of Morse College Yale University, 1982, lecturer in history, 1982—1990, dean of Calhoun College, 1982-1985, associate dean of graduate school, 1985—1990. Professor history Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1990—2007, dean of faculty, 1990—1993, president, 1993—2007, adjunct professor, since 2007. President, library Newberry Library., Chicago, since 2005.
(The idea of progress stood at the very center of the inte...)
Board directors Yale Coop, New Haven, 1987-1990, Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic Illinois Unit, 1998-2001, Associate Colleges of the Midwest, 1993-2001, chairman 2000-2001. Board directors CROYA, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1993-2001. Fellow: British-American Project.
Member: American Antiquarian Society, Grolier Club, Mid-American Club, Caxton Club, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Carolyn Elizabeth Gaugler, March 24, 1973. Children: Andrew, Claire.