Faculty

Paul A. Kramer
Associate Professor of History

PhD, Princeton, 1998

Modern U. S. history, with a special emphasis on transnational, imperial and global histories and the politics of race and gender. 

Telephone:  no VU phone 2009-2010
Email: paul.a.kramer@vanderbilt.edu
Office Hours: On leave 2009-2010
Office: no VU office 2009-2010

Paul A. Kramer will join the faculty of the History Department as Associate Professor in July 2009.  His primary research interests are in modern U. S. history, with a special emphasis on transnational, imperial and global histories and the politics of race and gender.

His first book, The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States and the Philippines (University of North Carolina Press; Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2006), explores the imperial politics of race-making between U. S. and Philippine societies in the late-19th and early-20th centuries.  The book was awarded the Organization of American Historians’ James A. Rawley Prize and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations’ Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, and was a finalist for the Philippines’ National Book Award in the Social Science category.

Professor Kramer has received research fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Fulbright program and the Smithsonian Institution, and was named a Top Young Historian by History News Network.  He is co-editor of Cornell University Press’ series “The United States in the World: Transnational Histories, International Perspectives” and program chair for “The United States in the World/The World in the United States,” the 2009 annual conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.  He is currently at work on a manuscript on the U. S. imperial politics of race between the 1860s and 1960s. He will be on leave at the Warren Center at Harvard University during the 2009-2010 academic year and will begin teaching at Vanderbilt in Fall 2010. 

Professor Kramer teaches a wide range of courses in modern U. S. history and the history of the United States in the world, including Transnational America, 1880-1930; Race, Gender and 20th Century U. S. International History; The United States as Empire; Comparing Racial Formations; Class, Culture and Power in the 20th Century United States; and Inventing Modern America, 1880-1930.

             

                      

                    

 

 

 

 

 

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