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Richard Wightman Fox

Expert on occupational therapy academic curriculum development, curriculum design, and community program design and development
  • Professor of History, American Studies and Ethnicity
Office: (213) 740-1657

Expertise

  • 19th- and 20th-century American thoughtand culture
  • history of religious and secular life inthe U.S.
  • American cultural-intellectual history asmoral inquiry
  • multiculturalism and the American West
  • ethnicity and religious experience
  • Christianity and the consumer culture
  • Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr
  • biography and its potential to illuminatecultural truths
  • Jesus

Additional Information

  • Author of So Far Disordered in Mind: Insanity in California, 1870-1930 (1979); Reinhold Niebuhr: A Biography” (1983);Trials of Intimacy: Love and Loss in the Beecher-Tilton Scandal” (1999); and Jesus in America : Personal Savior, Cultural Hero, National Obsession (2004)
  • Co-editor of The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in American
    History (1983); The Power of Culture: Critical Essays in American
    History (1993); A Companion to American Thought (1995); and In the
    Face of Facts: Moral Inquiry in American Scholarship (1997)