Kramer, Lloyd S. 1949-

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KRAMER, Lloyd S. 1949-


PERSONAL: Born December 13, 1949, in Maryville, TN; married Gwynne Pomeroy, 1987; children: Kyle P., Renee P. Education: Maryville College, B.A., 1971; Boston College, M.A., 1973; Cornell University, Ph. D., 1983.


ADDRESSES: Home—Chapel Hill, NC. Offıce— Department of History, CB-3195, University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599; fax: 919-962-1403.

CAREER: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, lecturer in history, 1983-84; Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, Mellon assistant professor of history, 1984-86; University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, assistant professor, 1986-89, associate professor, 1989-95, professor of history, 1995—. Institute for Advanced Study, member of School of Historical Studies, 1991-92; Institut Français de Washington, member of board of trustees.


MEMBER: American Historical Association, Society for French Historical Studies.


AWARDS, HONORS: Gilbert Chinard Prize, Society for French Historical Studies, 1997, and Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1998, both for Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions; fellow, National Humanities Center, 2002-03.


WRITINGS:


Threshold of a New World: Intellectuals and the ExileExperience in Paris, 1830-1848, Cornell University Press (Ithaca, NY), 1988.

(Editor) Paine and Jefferson on Liberty, Continuum (New York, NY), 1988.

(Editor, with Donald Reid and William Barney) Learning History in America: Schools, Cultures, and Politics, University of Minnesota Press (Minneapolis, MN), 1994.

Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and PersonalIdentities in an Age of Revolutions, University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC), 1996.

Nationalism: Political Cultures in Europe andAmerica, 1775-1865, Twayne (Boston, MA), 1998.

(With R. R. Palmer and J. Colton) A History of theModern World, 9th edition, McGraw-Hill (Boston, MA), 2002.

(Editor, with Sarah Maza) A Companion to WesternHistorical Thought, Blackwell Publishers (Malden, MA), 2002.

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