Overview
James Chappel is the Gilhuly Family Associate Professor of History at Duke University. He works on the intellectual history of modern Europe and the United States, focusing on themes of religion, gender, and the family. He has published two books and published widely in both scholarly and non-scholarly sites (The New York Times, The Nation, and more). At Duke, he is committed above all to History undergraduates, especially majors, and to the pursuit of prison engagement opportunities. He is …
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Gilhuly Family Associate Professor
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2021 - Present
History,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Associate Professor of History
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2021 - Present
History,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Director of Undergraduate Studies
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2023 - Present
History,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Co-Director for the Prison Engagement Initiative in the Kenan Institute for Ethics
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2023 - Present
Kenan Institute for Ethics,
University Institutes and Centers
Member, Executive Committee, Duke Human Rights Center at FHI
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2022 - Present
John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute,
University Institutes and Centers
Recent Publications
Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State: Debating Social Order in Postwar West Germany, 1949–1989. By Peter C. Caldwell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. viii+226. $90.00.
Journal Article The Journal of Modern History · December 1, 2021 Full text Cite“Explaining the Catholic Turn to Rights in the 1930s”
Chapter · September 24, 2020 This volume showcases the work of a new generation of scholars interested in the historical connection between religion and human rights in the twentieth century, offering a truly global perspective on the internal diversity, theological ... ... Cite“On the Border of Old Age”: An Entangled History of Eldercare in East Germany
Journal Article Central European History · June 2020 ABSTRACTHistorical research has turned in the last years more intensively toward entangled and transnational histories of biopolitics, the family, and the welfare state, but without renewed interest in aging and pension pol ... Full text Open Access CiteRecent Grants
Chappel NHC Fellowship
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Humanities Center · 2019 - 2019View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
Columbia University ·
2012
Ph.D.