Daniel Horowitz

Professor

Daniel Horowitz teaches United States Intellectual History. He majored in American Studies as an undergraduate at Yale and then went on to earn his Ph.D. in History at Harvard. Before coming to Smith in 1989, he taught at Harvard in History, Wellesley College in History, Skidmore College in American Studies, Carleton College in American Studies, the University of Michigan in History and American Studies, and Scripps College in History and American Studies. At Scripps he was the Nathaniel Wright Stephenson Professor of History and Biography. As a scholar he has focused on how American writers have responded to affluence and consumer culture since the 1830s. So far, this interest has led him to publish The Morality of Spending: Attitudes Toward the Consumer Society in America, 1875-1940 (1985), Vance Packard and American Social Criticism (1994), and Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism (1998), The Anxieties of Affluence: Intellectuals and Consumer Culture in the U.S., 1939-1979 (2004), and received the Choice Award, An Outstanding Academic Book. He has won fellowships from the National Humanities Center and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His work on Betty Friedan, Smith class of 1942, has earned him the Constance Rourke Prize from the American Studies Association and the annual book prize from the North East popular Culture Association.

At Smith, he is the Professor of American Studies and the Director of the American Studies Program. A specialist in recent American history, he has taught History 273: Contemporary America and History 383: U.S. Women's History-- The Sophia Smith Collection.

Phone: 413-585-3588
Office: Wright Hall 119
Email: dhorowit@smith.edu
Office Hours:  On Sabbatical for 2008-2009

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