Warren Center Workshop Themes, 1994-2023
1994-95 Cultural and Intellectual History (Donald Fleming)
1995-96 International or Intercultural Relations (Akira Iriye and Ernest May)
1996-97 War and American Society (Bill Gienapp and Ernest May)
1997-98 Early Modern Atlantic World (Bernard Bailyn)
1998-99 Divisions of Labor (Laurel Ulrich and Claudia Goldin)
1999-00 Beyond “Base and Superstructure”: Economy and Culture in American Society (LizCohen)
2000-01 Global America: Connections between Developments in America and in other Parts of the Globe (Akira Iriye, Jim Kloppenberg, and Ernest May)
2001-02 Exceptional by Nature?: American Science and Medicine, 1500- 1900 (Joyce Chaplin and Charles Rosenberg)
2002-03 Film in History/Film as History (Laurel Ulrich and Ruth Feldstein)
2003-04 The Political Economy of North America (Sven Beckert and Alex Keyssar)
2004-05 Culture and Politics of the Built Environment in North Cohen and Margaret Crawford)
2005-06 American Intellectuals and the Cultures of the Atlantic World (Jim Kloppenberg and David Hall)
2006-07 Cultural Reverberations of Modern War (Nancy Cott and Carol Oja)
2007-08 Politics and Social Movements (Lisa McGirr and Daniel Carpenter)
2008-09 Race-Making and Law-Making in the Long Civil Rights Movement (Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and Kenneth W. Mack)
2009-10 Empire, Sovereignty, Migration, and Diaspora: Transnational America from Above and Below (Vincent Brown and Walter Johnson)
2010-11 The History of North America in Global Perspective (Sven Beckert and Erez Manela)
2011-12 The Politics of Knowledge in Universities and the State (Julie Reuben and Andrew Jewett)
2012-13 Everyday Life: The Textures and Politics of the Ordinary, Persistent, and Repeated (Robin Bernstein and Samuel Zipp)
2013-14 The Environment and the American Past: Hot Topic? (Lawrence Buell, Joyce Chaplin, and Robin Kelsey)
2014-15 Multimedia History and Literature: New Directions in Scholarly Design
1995-96 International or Intercultural Relations (Akira Iriye and Ernest May)
1996-97 War and American Society (Bill Gienapp and Ernest May)
1997-98 Early Modern Atlantic World (Bernard Bailyn)
1998-99 Divisions of Labor (Laurel Ulrich and Claudia Goldin)
1999-00 Beyond “Base and Superstructure”: Economy and Culture in American Society (LizCohen)
2000-01 Global America: Connections between Developments in America and in other Parts of the Globe (Akira Iriye, Jim Kloppenberg, and Ernest May)
2001-02 Exceptional by Nature?: American Science and Medicine, 1500- 1900 (Joyce Chaplin and Charles Rosenberg)
2002-03 Film in History/Film as History (Laurel Ulrich and Ruth Feldstein)
2003-04 The Political Economy of North America (Sven Beckert and Alex Keyssar)
2004-05 Culture and Politics of the Built Environment in North Cohen and Margaret Crawford)
2005-06 American Intellectuals and the Cultures of the Atlantic World (Jim Kloppenberg and David Hall)
2006-07 Cultural Reverberations of Modern War (Nancy Cott and Carol Oja)
2007-08 Politics and Social Movements (Lisa McGirr and Daniel Carpenter)
2008-09 Race-Making and Law-Making in the Long Civil Rights Movement (Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and Kenneth W. Mack)
2009-10 Empire, Sovereignty, Migration, and Diaspora: Transnational America from Above and Below (Vincent Brown and Walter Johnson)
2010-11 The History of North America in Global Perspective (Sven Beckert and Erez Manela)
2011-12 The Politics of Knowledge in Universities and the State (Julie Reuben and Andrew Jewett)
2012-13 Everyday Life: The Textures and Politics of the Ordinary, Persistent, and Repeated (Robin Bernstein and Samuel Zipp)
2013-14 The Environment and the American Past: Hot Topic? (Lawrence Buell, Joyce Chaplin, and Robin Kelsey)
2014-15 Multimedia History and Literature: New Directions in Scholarly Design
(Vincent Brown and Glenda Carpio)
2015-16 The History of American Capitalism (Sven Beckert and Kenneth Mack)
2015-16 The History of American Capitalism (Sven Beckert and Kenneth Mack)
2016-17 Imagining History, Doing Politics: The Uses and Disadvantages of the Past (Brandon Terry and Kirsten Weld)
2017-18 Crime and Punishment in American History (Elizabeth Hinton and Lisa McGirr)
2018-19 US Power in Global Arena (Fredrick Logevall and Erez Manela)
2019-20 Past, Present, and Future of Ethnic Studies (Lorgia Garcia Pena and Ju Yon Kim)
2020-21 Religion and Public Life in North America, 16th Century to the Present (Catherine Brekus, David Holland, Jim Kloppenberg)
2021-22 Slavery and the Universities
2022-23 Capitalism's Hardwiring (Chris Desan and Kenneth Mack)