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Professor Emeritus
E-mail: snissenbaum@history.umass.edu
Degree: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin (1968).
Field(s) of interest: U.S. Cultural.
Graduate Courses Offered:
Early American Intellectual History (Not Online)
History of the Book (Not Online)
Topics in U.S. Cultural History to 1865
U.S. Cultural History Research Seminar
Research Interests and Professional Activities
Professor Nissenbaum's major publications include The Battle
for Christmas (1996), which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist; Sex,
Diet, and Debility in Jacksonian America: Sylvester Graham and Health
Reform (1980); and Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of
Witchcraft (with Paul Boyer, 1974), which won the American Historical
Association's John H. Dunning Prize. He has held major fellowships
from the NEH, the ACLS, Harvard's Charles Warren Center, and the
American Antiquarian Society. He has also been active in the public
humanities, having served as member (and president) of the Massachusetts
Foundation for the Humanities (the state agency of the NEH) and
as historical advisor to a number of films. As a teacher, Professor
Nissenbaum especially enjoys close and intensive analysis of primary
sources. In 1998-99 he was a Fulbright Distinguished Professor at
the Humboldt University in Berlin. Professor Nissenbaum retired
from the History Department in 2004.
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