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Alan M. Kraut |
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Professor Course SyllabiFall 2007HIS 353/653 Civil War and Reconstruction Spring 2007 |
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 Covenant of Care (2007), co-authored by Professor Kraut and his wife Deborah Kraut, opens a window on American health care, immigrant experience, and urban life through a case study of Newark Beth Israel Hospital. |
Fields of InterestU.S. immigration and ethnic history, history of medicine in the United States, nineteenth century American social history, the Civil War and post-bellum South Alan M. Kraut is
Professor of History at American University in Washington, D.C.
He received his BA from Hunter College of the City University of New
York (1968) and his MA (1971) and PhD (1975) from Cornell
University. In 1995, he was Visiting Professor in the History of
Science at Harvard University. He is a specialist in U.S. immigration
and ethnic history, the history of medicine in the United States, and
nineteenth century U.S. social history. He is the author or editor of
seven books and over a hundred articles and book reviews. His books
include, The Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in American Society, 1880-1921 (1982;
rev. 2001), an edited volume, Crusaders and Compromisers: Essays on the Relationship
of the Antislavery Struggle to the Antebellum Party System(1983), American
Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933-1945 (co-authored), and Silent
Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the “Immigrant Menace”
(1994). The latter volume won several national awards, including the
Theodore Saloutos Award from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society
and the Phi Alpha Theta Award for the Best Book in History by an
established author. His recent volume, Goldberger’s War: The Life and
Work of a Public Health Crusader,
published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, is a biography of U.S.
Public Health Service physician Dr. Joseph Goldberger and his
investigation of pellagra in the early twentieth century South. It has
been honored with the Henry Adams Prize from the Society for History in
the Federal Government and the Arthur J. Viseltear Prize from the
American Public Health Association. His sixth book, a co-edited volume
with David Gerber, American Immigration and Ethnicity: A Reader, was
published in October, 2005 by Palgrave-St. Martin’s. A seventh volume, Covenant
of Care: Newark Beth Israel and the Jewish Hospital in America (co-authored
with his wife, Deborah), is a study of the trajectory of an ethnic
healthcare institution in the twentieth century, published
in January, 2007. His scholarly projects have been supported by the
Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the
Smithsonian Institution, the American Philosophical Society, the
National Institutes of Health and the Healthcare Foundation of New
Jersey.
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