Kevin Schultz
Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago
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Kevin M. Schultz is an associate professor of history, Catholic Studies and religious studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  He teaches twentieth-century American history and has special interests in religion, ethnoracial history, and American intellectual and cultural life.  His first academic monographTri-Faith America: How Postwar Catholics and Jews Held America to its Protestant Promise (Oxford University Press, 2011, now in paperback), charted the decline of the idea that the United States was a “Christian nation” and the subsequent rise of the notion that the country was premised on something called “Judeo-Christianity.”  The book then showed how acceptance of America’s “Judeo-Christian” premise altered the country, in places like education, collegiate fraternities, suburbs, and the census, all during what were the supposedly conformist 1950s.

His interests have since moved to the 1960s, and Professor Schultz’s current work examines the fascinating intertwined lives of William F. Buckley, Jr. and Norman Mailer as a way to explore and better understand that pivotal decade. That book is under contract with W.W. Norton & Co., which wants the manuscript sooner rather than later.  He also has had his essays appear in several of the profession’s flagship journals, including the Journal of American HistoryAmerican QuarterlyThe Journal of the American Academy of Religion, and Labor Historyas well as other distinguished outlets both popular and academic.

>A distinguished teacher, Professor Schultz has won several major teaching awards, including most recently both the 2012-13 Teaching Recognition Award from the Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at UIC and the 2012-13 Shirley A. Bill Award for Excellent Teaching, an award selected by UIC History faculty, graduate students, and majors.  Professor Schultz is also the author of HIST, a popular college-level textbook, now out in its third edition (Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 3rd ed. 2013). And he has appeared on the NPR show “Backstory: With the American History Guys” not once, but twice.

Kevin M. Schultz is an associate professor of history, Catholic Studies and religious studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  He teaches twentieth-century American history and has special interests in religion, ethnoracial history, and American intellectual and cultural life.  His first academic monographTri-Faith America: How Postwar Catholics and Jews Held America to its Protestant Promise (Oxford University Press, 2011, now in paperback), charted the decline of the idea that the United States was a “Christian nation” and the subsequent rise of the notion that the country was premised on something called “Judeo-Christianity.”  The book then showed how acceptance of America’s “Judeo-Christian” premise altered the country, in places like education, collegiate fraternities, suburbs, and the census, all during what were the supposedly conformist 1950s.

His interests have since moved to the 1960s, and Professor Schultz’s current work examines the fascinating intertwined lives of William F. Buckley, Jr. and Norman Mailer as a way to explore and better understand that pivotal decade. That book is under contract with W.W. Norton & Co., which wants the manuscript sooner rather than later.  He also has had his essays appear in several of the profession’s flagship journals, including the Journal of American HistoryAmerican QuarterlyThe Journal of the American Academy of Religion, and Labor Historyas well as other distinguished outlets both popular and academic.

>A distinguished teacher, Professor Schultz has won several major teaching awards, including most recently both the 2012-13 Teaching Recognition Award from the Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at UIC and the 2012-13 Shirley A. Bill Award for Excellent Teaching, an award selected by UIC History faculty, graduate students, and majors.  Professor Schultz is also the author of HIST, a popular college-level textbook, now out in its third edition (Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 3rd ed. 2013). And he has appeared on the NPR show “Backstory: With the American History Guys” not once, but twice.