Dennis Dworkin

Dennis Dworkin, former coordinator of the university's Core Curriculum, is an Associate Professor in history and chair of the department. A specialist in modern Europe, Britain, and Ireland, he teaches courses in political, cultural, and intellectual history. He earned his Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago and has taught at UNR since 1992. He is the author of Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain: History, the New Left, and the Origins of Cultural Studies (Duke University Press, 1997). Cultural theory, understanding modernity, and figuring out nationalism are his particular interests. His lecture, "Globalism and Post-Modern Culture," was broadcast in the KNPB series, The Western Traditions Lectures and he is co-editor of the WT 202 reader, Trials of Modernity. He was the Sanford Distinguished Professor of the Humanities 2002-2004, delivering public lectures on social class, on "Postmodernism in Nevada," and on Paris in the jazz age.

Dennis Dworkin
Dennis Dworkin, former coordinator of the university's Core Curriculum, is an Associate Professor in history and chair of the department. A specialist in modern Europe, Britain, and Ireland, he teaches courses in political, cultural, and intellectual history. He earned his Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago and has taught at UNR since 1992. He is the author of Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain: History, the New Left, and the Origins of Cultural Studies (Duke University Press, 1997). Cultural theory, understanding modernity, and figuring out nationalism are his particular interests. His lecture, "Globalism and Post-Modern Culture," was broadcast in the KNPB series, The Western Traditions Lectures and he is co-editor of the WT 202 reader, Trials of Modernity. He was the Sanford Distinguished Professor of the Humanities 2002-2004, delivering public lectures on social class, on "Postmodernism in Nevada," and on Paris in the jazz age.
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