Guy Ortolano
Assistant Professor of History
Northwestern University, PhD 2005
Office Address:
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 420
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Field of Study:
Modern Europe
Areas of Research/Interest:
Britain since 1688, cultural & intellectual history, urban history, history of science, twentieth century
Bio
Guy Ortolano is a historian of modern Britain. His research focuses on the period since World War II, and examines the shift from the social democratic political culture of the immediate postwar decades to the more conservative politics that have predominated since the 1980s. The Royal Historical Society named his first book, The Two Cultures Controversy, runner-up for the Whitfield Prize; the American Council of Learned Societies has awarded his current project, on British New Towns, a Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship. Ortolano received his PhD from Northwestern University in 2005, and he previously taught at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Virginia before arriving at NYU in 2009.
Fellowships/Honors:
ACLS, Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship (2012-2013).
St John's College, Oxford University, Invited Visiting Scholar (2012).
American Philosophical Society, Franklin Grant (2011).
American Historical Association, Bernadotte Schmitt Research Grant (2009).
Cornell University, Society for the Humanities (2007-2008).
British Society for the History of Science, Ivan Slade Article Prize, Runner-up (2006).
University of Texas, Harry Ransom Center, British Studies Fellowship (2006).
Northwestern University, Harold Perkin Dissertation Prize (2005).
Josephine de Karman Dissertation Fellowship (2002-2003).
Selected Works:
Books:
The Two Cultures Controversy: Science, Literature, and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain (Cambridge, 2009; paperback, 2011)
*Whitfield Prize, Royal Historical Society, proxime accessit.
[Cambridge Press] [Amazon.com]
Articles:
“Planning the Urban Future in 1960s Britain,” The Historical Journal 54:2 (2011): 477-507, featured in the August 2011 issue of the BBC History Magazine.
“‘Decline’ as a Weapon in Cultural Politics,” Penultimate Adventures with Britannia, ed. Wm. Roger Louis (London: I. B. Tauris, 2008), pp. 201-214.
“The Literature and the Science of ‘Two Cultures’ Historiography,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 39 (2008): 143-150.
“F. R. Leavis, Science, and the Abiding Crisis of Modern Civilization,” History of Science 43 (2005): 161-185.
“Human Science or a Human Face? Social History and the ‘Two Cultures’ Controversy,” Journal of British Studies 43 (2004): 482-505.
Two Cultures, One University,” Albion 34 (2002): 606-624.
“The Role of Dorcas in ‘Roger Malvin’s Burial’,” Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 25 (1999): 8-16.
Book reviews for The English Historical Review, Isis, Journal of Modern History, Journal of British Studies, Twentieth Century British History, The European Legacy, H-net.
