Dan L. LeMahieu
Hotchkiss Presidential Professor of History
Director of Graduate Program in Liberal Studies

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 212: Europe from 1715 to 1890
History 213: Twentieth Century Europe
History 222: Modern British History
History 331: The Enlightenment
History 332: European Romanticism
History 335: 20th Century British Culture
History 340: History and the Moving Image
History 380: The Past: History, Philosophy, Literature, Film

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: An Online Journal of Film & TV Studies.  13 (February 2009)  http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/article.php?issue=13&id=1096

"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 (98)
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, New Media & Society, 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