Cliopatria Welcomes Bruce Mazlish

Cliopatria is pleased to welcome Bruce Mazlish to its circle. Professor Mazlish hardly needs an introduction. He earned his academic degrees at Columbia, studying with Shepherd Clough and Jacques Barzun, joined the history department at MIT, and taught there for nearly a half century. His first book, with Jacob Brunowski, was The Western Intellectual Tradition: From Leonardo to Hegel (1960); and his second, The Riddle of History: The Great Speculators from Vico to Freud (1966), pursued his interest in European intellectual history. Subsequently, he published pioneering works in psycho-history, revolutionary leadership, and comparative and global history. Professor Mazlish was a founding editor of History & Theory and helped to establish the Journal of Interdisciplinary History. He published in such places as the American Historical Review, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Daedalus, History of European Ideas, the Journal of Contemporary History, the Nation, the New York Times Book Review, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, and many others. He has lectured widely in the United States and abroad; and served on governing and advisory boards for the Toynbee Prize Foundation, the Library of Congress's Kluge Prize, and the Rockefeller Archives Center. It is a privilege to welcome him to our group at Cliopatria.