American historian
Otis L. Graham
Born Otis Livingston Graham Jr.
(1935-06-25 ) June 25, 1935Died November 14, 2017(2017-11-14) (aged 82) Alma mater Thesis The Old Progressive and the New Deal (1966)Doctoral advisor Influences Rexford Tugwell [1] Discipline History Sub-discipline American history Institutions
Otis Livingston Graham Jr. (1935–2017) was an American historian, with a special interest in political history , immigration , and public history .
Born in Nashville , Tennessee , on June 25, 1935,[1] Graham received his BA in history from Yale University in 1957 (he also was a varsity wrestler at Yale). After serving three years as an officer in the US Marine Corps , he earned his PhD in history at Columbia University in 1966 (under Richard Hofstadter and William Leuchtenburg )[citation needed ] with a doctoral dissertation entitled The Old Progressive and the New Deal: A Study of the Modern Reform Tradition .[2] He taught at Mount Vernon Seminary and College and then California State University, Hayward , before he joined the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara , in 1966 (the same year as Alfred Gollin ).[3] Graham taught there until 1980, when he became Distinguished University Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill .
He returned to the history department at the University of California, Santa Barbara , in 1989 and taught there until 1995. From 1990 to 1997 he served as editor of The Public Historian . He then taught at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington , until 2002.[4]
Graham published over 25 books during his career.[3] He also served on the Council of the American Historical Association from 1971 to 1974. Graham was awarded fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation , the Woodrow Wilson Center , the National Endowment for the Humanities , and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences .[4] He became interested in immigration later in his career and served as founding chairman of the Center for Immigration Studies .[5]
He died on November 14, 2017, in Westlake Village , California .[4]
Selected publications
Otis L. Graham, An Encore for Reform: The Old Progressives and the New Deal (New York: Oxford University Press, 1967).
Otis L. Graham, Toward a Planned Society: From Roosevelt to Nixon (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976)
Otis L. Graham, Losing Time: The Industrial Policy Debate (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992).
Otis L. Graham, Unguarded Gates: A History of America's Immigration Crisis (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004)
Otis L. Graham, Immigration Reform and America's Unchosen Future (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2008)
Otis L. Graham, Presidents and the American Environment (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2015)
References
^ a b Koed, Betty K. (2018). "Otis L. Graham, Jr., 1935–2017". The Public Historian . 40 (1): 10. doi :10.1525/tph.2018.40.1.10 . ISSN 1533-8576 .
^ Graham, Otis L. (1966). The Old Progressive and the New Deal: A Study of the Modern Reform Tradition (PhD thesis). New York: Columbia University. OCLC 15154130 .
^ a b Koed, Betty K. (2018). "Otis L. Graham, Jr., 1935–2017". The Public Historian . 40 (1): 10–12. doi :10.1525/tph.2018.40.1.10 . ISSN 1533-8576 .
^ a b c Banner, James M. Jr. (January 2018). "Otis L. Graham Jr. (1935–2017)" . Perspectives on History . Vol. 56, no. 1. Washington: American Historical Association. ISSN 1940-8048 . Retrieved November 20, 2019 .
^ "Otis L. Graham" . Washington: Center for Immigration Studies. Retrieved November 20, 2019 .
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