Engerman, David C. 1966-

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Engerman, David C. 1966-

PERSONAL:

Born March 20, 1966, in Rochester, NY; son of Stanley and Judith (Ruder) Engerman. Education:Swarthmore College, B.A., 1988; Rutgers University, M.A., 1993; University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D., 1998.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of History, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454.

CAREER:

Writer, educator, and historian. Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, assistant professor.

WRITINGS:


(Editor and author of introduction) The God That Failed, Columbia University Press (New York, NY), 2001.

(Coeditor) Staging Growth, University of Massachusetts Press (Amherst, MA), 2003.

Modernization from the Other Shore, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 2003.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:


PERIODICALS


Diplomatic History, Volume 29, September, 2005, Michael E. Latham, "High-Modernist Dreams and Nightmares," pp. 733-38.

International History Review, Volume 26, June, 2004, Brad Simpson, review of Staging Growth.

Modern Intellectual History, Volume 2, August, 2005, Thomas Haskell, "Modernization on Trial," pp. 235-263.

Reason, April, 2002, Alan Charles Kors, review ofThe God That Failed, p. 62.

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