History Professor Named to American Philosophical Society
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May 17, 2004
Professor of history Bruce Kuklick has been elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society, a prestigious learned society founded in Philadelphia in 1743.
Professor Kuklick, the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History, is a scholar of the political, diplomatic, and intellectual history of the United States as well as the philosophy of history. He has written eight books on topics as wide-ranging as American scholars of the Near East, baseball, and the history of philosophy. He is currently working on a book examining the ways in which scholars have understood war and the influence they have had on diplomacy. In his 28 years in the history department, he has received all of the University’s major teaching awards. He earned both his B.A. and Ph.D. at Penn.
With more than 900 members around the world, election to the APS honors extraordinary accomplishments in all fields. Past members have included Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Darwin, Thomas Edison, Louis Pasteur, Albert Einstein, Robert Frost, and Marie Curie. Professor Kuklick’s election brings to 12 the number of SAS faculty who are members of the APS.