Robert H. Abzug
Professor — Ph.D., History, 1977, University of California, Berkeley
Contact
- E-mail: zug@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-475-7240
- Office: GAR 2.108
- Office Hours: On Leave- Fall '09
- Campus Mail Code: B7000
Biography
He taught at Berkeley and UCLA before coming to Texas in 1978. He held the Eric Voegelin Visiting Professorship at the University of Munich, 1990-91. He is also a former chair of American Studies (1990-96) and founding Director of Liberal Arts Honors Programs at Texas (1996-2002)
Research interests
Professor Abzug's scholarship explores the formation of social and moral consciousness in American culture. He has worked in three major fields: social reform and religious life in antebellum America, America and the Holocaust, and, most recently, the interpenetration of religion and psychology in modern American culture. His research has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and numerous other foundations.
He is in the final stages of preparing a biography of the American psychologist, Rollo May. He is in the beginning stages of two projects. The first is a reassessment of the impact of Jewish émigrés of the 1930s and 1940s on American culture. The second is a photographic project on remaining signs of Texas Jewish life from the 19th and early 20th Centuries.
Courses taught
Professor Abzug regularly teaches courses on Antebellum America, Religion and Psychology in American Culture, America and the Holocaust and, together with Professor Steven Hoelscher, a course on Photography in American Culture.
