Thomas Schlereth
Concurrent Professor Department of History
Professor Department of American Studies
Field
U.S. History
Profile
B.A., University of Notre Dame; M.A., University of Wisconsin; Ph.D., University of Iowa
Thomas J. Schlereth teaches American Culture, urban, landscape and architectural history as well as material culture studies. He has written or edited fifteen books including Artifacts and the American Past; The Cosmopolitan Ideal in Enlightment Thought; Material Culture Studies in America; The Industrial Belt; Sense of Place: American Regional Cultures; Reading The Road; Cultural History and Material Culture; American Home Life 1890-1930; and Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life, 1876-1915, a selection of the National Book of the Month Club in 1992. He has been Guest Editor for the American Quarterly; General Editor of The Indiana University Press' Midwest History Series, and Contributing Editor (1987-2000) for the Journal of American History. In addition to acting as a historical consultant at over a hundred museums and historical societies, he has participated as an interviewee or historical consultant on a dozen historical documentary films.
Contact
Office: 271 Decio Faculty Hall
Phone: (574) 631-6129
Email: schlereth.2@nd.edu
Website: http://www.nd.edu/~tschlere/Tjschlereth/keepersoftrees.htm
Office Hours: Wednesday 9:00 – 12:00 (fall), On leave spring 2007