Donald T. Critchlow

Donald Thomas Critchlow (born May 18, 1948) is the Katzin Family Foundation Professor at Arizona State University specializing in American political history. He serves currently as director for the program for Political History and Leadership and a professor of history at Arizona State University. He has appeared on C-Span, National Public Radio, BBC World News, and many talk radio programs. He has written for the Washington Post, New York Observer, New York Post, and National Review. He is the author and editor of 25 books and is the founding editor of Journal of Policy History published by Cambridge University Press.

Donald T. Critchlow
Critchlow in 2015.
Born
Donald Thomas Critchlow

May 18, 1948
Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California, United States
EducationPhD UC Berkeley
Occupationhistorian
TitleUniversity professor
Political partyRepublican
Spouse(s)Patricia Powers Critchlow
Children2

Biography

Early life

Donald Thomas Critchlow was born on May 18, 1948, in Pasadena, California.[1] He was educated at Maryville High School in Phoenix, Arizona. He graduated from San Francisco State University in 1968 and received his M.A. (1972) and Ph.D. (1978) from the University of California, Berkeley.

Career

He was an associate professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, before moving to Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri, as a professor of history. In the fall of 2010, he accepted a professorship in history at Arizona State University and in 2016 he was named Katzin Family Professor. He serves as director for the Program in Political Thought and Leadership at ASU.

He is founding president on the Institute for Political History, a non-profit education foundation that sponsors the Policy History Conference, graduate travel awards, and other academic and historical projects.

He has also been a visiting professor at University of Hong Kong (1997–98) and University of Warsaw in Poland (1988–89). In addition he has been a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and a fellow at the Center for Philosophy and Politics. He has lectured throughout Europe and China as a State Department distinguished lecturer and as a Fulbright Scholar.

His most recent books include "In Defense of Populism" (University of Pennsylvania Pr., 2020) “Republican Character: From Nixon to Reagan” (University of Pennsylvania Pr, 2018), “Future Right: The Forging of a New Republican Majority(St. Martin's Press, 2016), American Political History: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2015) "When Hollywood Was Right: How Movie Starts, Movie Moguls and Big Business Remade American Politics" Cambridge University Press, 2013) The Conservative Ascendancy" (2007; "Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism" (2005), and "Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion and the Federal Government in Modern America" (1999). He is co-editor with Paula Baker of The Oxford handbook of American Political History, co-authored a textbook on American history with Paula Baker and W. J. Rorabaugh, and edited a five-volume history of the United States published in Warsaw, Poland. In 1987, he co-founded the quarterly interdisciplinary Journal of Policy History. Published by Cambridge University Press, the Journal has published a number of prize winning essays and sponsors an interdisciplinary conference.

Personal life

He is married to Patricia Powers Critchlow, and they have two daughters, Agnieszka Critchlow and Magda Critchlow, and three grandchildren, Andrew, Alexander, and Joshua.

Bibliography
  • The Brookings Institution: 1916-1952: Expertise in a Democratic Society (DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois Press, 1984)
  • Studebaker: The Life and Death of an American Corporation (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1996)
  • Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government in Modern America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999)
  • Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2005)
  • The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press,2007; Expanded and Revised edition, Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2011)
  • Debating the Conservative Movement (co-authored with Nancy MacLean) (Lantham, Maryland: Rowman and Littfield Publishers, 2009)
  • When Hollywood Was Right: How Movie Stars, Studio Moguls, and Big Business Changed American Politics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013)
  • American Political History: A Very Short Introduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015)
  • Future Right: Forging a New Republican Majority (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2016)
  • "Republican Character: From Reagan to Nixon" (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
  • "In Defense of Populism" (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020)

References
  1. California Birth Index
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