James Kloppenberg

professor, American history, Harvard University

James T. Kloppenberg is the Charles Warren Research Professor of American History at Harvard University. He is the author of four books—most recently Reading Obama (2011) and Toward Democracy (2016). His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Newsweek, Le Monde, Democracy, and Commonweal. Kloppenberg has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim, Danforth, and Whiting foundations, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.