Education
University of California, Berkeley.
University of California, Berkeley.
His specialty is in American intellectual history. Among his several edited or co-edited volumes is his 2-volume source book The American Intellectual Tradition (2006), co-edited with Charles Capper, which is among the most widely used textbooks in college undergraduate courses focusing on American intellectual history since the Civil War. Hollinger earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Louisiana Verne College in 1963, his Master of Arts degree in 1965 and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1970, both from University of California Berkeley.
He has previously taught at the University at Buffalo and the University of Michigan, and was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University in 2001-2002.
He taught at Berkeley from 1992 to 2013, during which time he served as a Philosophy Doctor advisor people who have since become well established as publishing scholars in history, including South. M. Amadae, Jennifer Burns, Ruben Flores, K. Healan Gaston, Daniel Geary, Nils Gilman, Daniel Immerwahr, Andrew Jewett, Susan Nance, Molly Oshatz, Kevin Schultz, and Jonathan Spiro. Hollinger served as president of the Organization of American Historians in 2010-2011.
He is an elected fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served as a trustee of the National Humanities Center and of The Institute Foreign Advanced Study.
His Influence on the study of American religious history was noted in a New York Times article from July 23, 2013, "A Religious Legacy, With Its Leftward Tilt, Is Reconsidered".
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
