An Interview with Professor Patrick Allitt: Who is the Professor and Who is the Student?

Abstract

<em>Profile: Patrick Allitt is Cahoon Family Professor of American History. He was an undergraduate at Oxford in England, a graduate student at the University of California Berkeley, and held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard Divinity School and Princeton University. At Emory since 1988, he teaches courses on American intellectual, environmental, and religious history, on Victorian Britain, and on the Great Books. Author of six books, he is also presenter of seven lecture series with “The Great Courses” (www.thegreatcourses.com), including “The Art of Teaching”.</em>