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| Daniel T. Rodgers | |
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| Name | Daniel T. Rodgers |
| Birth date | 1942 |
| Occupation | Historian, Author, Professor |
| Notable works | The Work Ethic in Industrial America; Atlantic Crossings; Age of Fracture |
| Awards | Bancroft Prize; National Book Award (finalist) |
| Alma mater | Harvard University; Yale University |
| Employer | Princeton University; Stanford University; University of California, Berkeley |
Daniel T. Rodgers is an American historian known for scholarship on United States social and intellectual history, with particular emphasis on ideas about labor, citizenship, and modern political thought. His work connects archival research, theoretical engagement, and narrative synthesis to examine transformations during the Gilded Age, Progressive Era, New Deal, and late twentieth century. Rodgers's writing has influenced historians, political scientists, and public intellectuals examining the rise of modern liberalism, neoliberalism, and transatlantic exchanges.
Rodgers was born in the United States in 1942 and raised in a milieu shaped by postwar debates including the Marshall Plan, the Cold War, and the reshaping of Washington, D.C. institutions. He completed undergraduate studies at Yale University before pursuing graduate work at Harvard University, where he studied under figures associated with the history of ideas such as scholars connected to the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature and intellectual networks that included historians of the Progressive Era and the New Deal. His dissertation intersected archival collections from repositories like the Library of Congress and university archives that hold papers of prominent statesmen and labor leaders of the twentieth century.
Rodgers taught at several leading universities, holding appointments at Princeton University, Stanford University, and the University of California, Berkeley, and participating in interdisciplinary programs alongside scholars from the Kennedy School of Government and research centers linked to the Institute for Advanced Study. He served as a professor in departments that engaged with scholars associated with the study of industrial relations and transatlantic intellectual exchange, collaborating with historians who worked on figures connected to the New Deal, the Great Depression, and Cold War policymaking. Rodgers was an invited fellow at institutions such as the National Humanities Center and engaged in lecture series at the Library of Congress and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Rodgers's major books include The Work Ethic in Industrial America, which situates debates among leaders tied to American Federation of Labor and industrialists engaged with the Progressive Era; Atlantic Crossings, which examines intellectual and institutional exchanges across the Atlantic Ocean involving figures linked to British and American social policy; and Age of Fracture, which traces transformations in ideas associated with liberalism, conservatism, and market-oriented thought in the late twentieth century. Across these works Rodgers engages archival material from collections holding the papers of public intellectuals, policymakers, and organizers connected to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, and later figures associated with Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek debates. His themes address the shifting meanings of citizenship in texts related to the New Deal, the role of expertise in policymaking linked to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the circulation of concepts among transatlantic networks that include scholarship tied to the London School of Economics and the Brookings Institution. Rodgers places intellectual history in conversation with labor histories featuring actors from the Congress of Industrial Organizations and corporate leaders who engaged with changing notions of the work ethic and managerial reform.
Rodgers's scholarship has been recognized with major prizes and fellowships. He received the Bancroft Prize for historical writing and was a finalist for the National Book Award. His research has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies. He has held honorary positions in associations such as the Organization of American Historians and delivered named lectures at venues linked to the New York Public Library and the Smithsonian Institution.
Rodgers's work reshaped debates among historians of the United States by emphasizing intellectual genealogies connecting the Progressive Era to late twentieth-century debates over market reform, welfare retrenchment, and cultural shifts. Scholars in fields influenced by Rodgers include historians writing on the New Deal, political theorists examining liberalism and conservatism, and transatlantic historians focused on exchanges between Britain and the United States. His books are widely cited in monographs and articles dealing with figures such as Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman, and institutions like the Federal Reserve System, the Brookings Institution, and the London School of Economics. Rodgers's synthesis continues to inform graduate seminars, public policy debates, and interdisciplinary studies linking the history of ideas to archival practices at the Library of Congress and university special collections.
Category:American historians Category:Intellectual historians