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Dr. Andrew H. Delbanco (born 1952) is Director of American Studies at Columbia University and has been Columbia's Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities since 1995. He writes extensively on American literary and religious history.

A double graduate of Harvard University (BA and PhD), Delbanco has been teaching at Columbia University since 1985 and, since 1995, has been Columbia's Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities. In 2001 he was named by Time Magazine as "America's Best Social Critic", and in 2003 was chosen New York State Scholar of the Year by the New York Council for the Humanities. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has served as vice president of PEN American Center and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation (1990), the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the National Humanities Center (NHC). He is a trustee of the Library of America, the Association of American Colleges and Universities and the Teagle Foundation.

Delbanco's books The Puritan Ordeal (1989) and Melville: His World and Work (2005) received the Lionel Trilling Award at Columbia University. Only he and Edward Said have won the award twice. He has also received Columbia's Great Teacher Award. He is the author of The Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil (1995), Required Reading: Why Our American Classics Matter Now (1997), The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope (1999) and College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be (2012). Among the books he has edited are The Puritans in America (1985), The Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson (volume 2) (1990), The Portable Abraham Lincoln (1992) and Writing New England (2001). Delbanco's essays appear regularly in the New York Review of Books, The New Republic, and other journals, on topics ranging from American literary and religious history to contemporary issues in higher education. He was awarded a 2011 National Humanities Medal "for his writings on higher education and the place classic authors hold in history and contemporary life."

References

1. ^ "Professor Andrew Delbanco Awarded National Humanities Medal", Columbia News, February 14, 2012
2. Cambridge Forum Speakers 1970-1990 Volume II
3. New York Institute for the Humanities website
4. Delbanco on John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation website
5. ^ Biography on Answers.com
6. ^ "Delbanco Receives National Humanities Medal", "Around the Quads", Columbia College Today, Spring 2012
7. Delbanco on the New York Review of Books website

External links

• Delbanco on the New York Institute for the Humanities website
• Delbanco's Faculty Page at Columbia University
• Delbanco on the Wheaton College website
• Delbanco discussed in The Harvard Crimson

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