Dan L. LeMahieu
Hotchkiss Presidential Professor of History
Director of Graduate Program in Liberal Studies
Chair, Department of Communication

Phone 847-735-5133
E-mail lemahieu@lakeforest.edu

Education
Ph.D. Harvard University
M.A. Harvard University
B.A.(summa cum laude) Lawrence University

Recent Courses
History 213: Twentieth Century Europe
History 222: Modern British History
History 240: History and Film
History 331: The Enlightenment
History 332: European Romanticism
History 335: 20th Century British Culture

Books
A Culture for Democracy: Mass Communication and the Cultivated Mind in Britain Between the Wars. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. 415 pages.

The Mind of William Paley: A Philosopher and His Age. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1976. 216 pages.

Articles (selected)
"The Ethopoetic Moment."  Scope.  Forthcoming in February, 2009.

"Preface". William Paley, Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy (1785). (Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 2002). pp. xi - xxvii.

"Honest to God and the Discourse on Patriarchy in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain". Christianity and Literature. 51, 1 (2001): 43-63.

"Culture for Mass Audiences" in Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History. Volume 3. Mary Kupiec Cayton and Peter W. Williams, eds. (New York: Charles Scribners's Sons, 2001): 259-266

"America and the Representation of British History in Film and Television" in Roland Quinault and Fred Leventhal, eds., Anglo-American Attitudes: From Revolution to Partnership (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000): 261-78.

"Entrepreneur of Collectivism: Reith of the BBC" in After the Victorians: Private Conscience and Public Duty, 1880-1950. Edited by Susan Pedersen and Peter Mandler (London: Routledge, 1994): 188-206.

"The History of British and American Sport: A Review Essay". Comparative Studies in Society and History: An International Quarterly. 32, 4 (1990): 838-45.

"Imagined Contemporaries: Cinematic and Televised Dramas about the Edwardians in Great Britain and the United States, 1967-1985". Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television. 10, 3 (1990): 243-56.

"The Origins of the Advertising Business". Reviews in American History. 11, 4 (1983): 571-75.

"The Gramophone: Recorded Music and the Cultivated Mind in Britain Between the Wars". Technology and Culture. 23, 3 (1982): 372-91.

"Malthus and the Theology of Scarcity". Journal of the History of Ideas. 40, 3 (1979): 467-74.

Book Reviews (96)
Albion, American Historical Review, British Politics Newsletter, Canadian Historical Review, Catholic Historical Review, Choice, Church History, Comparative Studies in Economics, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Eighteenth-Century Studies, H-Albion, The Historian, History: Reviews of New Books, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, History Teacher, Isis, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Journal of Victorian Culture, Media History, Reviews in History, Technology and Culture. Twentieth-Century British History.

Visiting Professorships
University of Michigan, 1983-84.

Harvard University, 1992-93

Awards and Honors
Phi Beta Kappa, 1966.

Frederick Lewis Prize (1967) to College Valedictorian.

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship, 1967-68.

Harvard Graduate Prize Fellowship, 1967-72.

Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship, 1978-79.

Bird Award for Intellectual Contributions, 2002

Trustee Award for Teaching Excellence, 2006