James T. Kloppenberg is Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies in American History at Brandeis University, where he has taught since completing his Ph.D. in History and Humanities at Stanford University in 1980. He is co-editor, with Richard Wightman Fox, of A Companion to American Thought (1995), and author of Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870-1920 (Oxford University Press, 1986), which was awarded the Merle Curti Prize in intellectual history by the Organization of Americam Historians.