Faculty Spotlight
Patrick Allitt
Cahoon Family Professor of American History
Patrick Allitt is Cahoon Family Professor of American History, an Americanist specializing in religious, intellectual, and environmental history. He graduated from Oxford, England, in 1977 and earned his Ph.D. in American History in 1986 from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Divinity School (1985-1988) and has been at Emory since 1988. Author of six books, he is also the presenter of six lecture series with The Teaching Company (http://www.teach12.com) on aspects of American and British history.
A widely published and award-winning author, Professor Allitt wrote I’m the Teacher, You’re the Student: A Semester in the University Classroom, a memoir about one semester in his life as a college professor. His books also include The Conservatives: Ideas and Personalities throughout American History; Catholic Intellectuals and Conservative Politics in America, 1950–1985; Catholic Converts: British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome; and Religion in America since 1945: A History.
Professor Allitt’s current research and writing project is a history of the intellectual and political opponents of environmentalism, from the 1960s to the early twenty-first century.
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