John Gillis (historian)
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John R. Gillis Professor of History
Ph.D., Stanford University B.A. Amherst College
'RESEARCH INTERESTS:'
John Gillis' work has been largely in social history, covering a variety of periods, subjects, and geographical areas. He began as a German historian, moved to British history and then began to be interested in age relations, marriage, memory, and the cultures of European and American family life. At the moment, he is moving offshore, writing about Atlantic islands and the prominent place they have had in the western imaginary since the Ancients. The project, titled Islands of the Mind, is a blending of cultural geography and history. It treats islands and continents as interactive parts of a larger whole; and is concerned both with the role played by islands in the economic, political, and social dimensions of Atlantic world and the way the myths, images, and narratives of islands function for mainland cultures. He continue to work in the area of family history, particularly on the subject memory and of family time and family space. Another of his current interests are the cultural construction of childhood and how this affects the lives of children as well as adults.
PUBLICATIONS: Islands of the Mind: How the Human Imagination Created the Atlantic World (2004) The Prussian Bureacuracy in Crisis, 1840-60 (Stanford, 1971) Youth and History: Tradition and Change in European Age Relations, 1750-Present (Academic, 1975) Development of European Society, 1770-1870 (Houghton Mifflin, 1977) For Better, For Worse: British Marriages, 1600 to the present (Oxford, 1985) A World of Their Own Making: Myth, Ritual, and the Quest for Family Values (Basic, 1996)
BOOKS EDITED: The Militarization of the Western World (Rutgers 1989) The European Experience of Declining Fertility, with D. Levine and L. Tilly (Blackwell, 1992) Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity (Princeton, 1996)
AWARDS: Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1988 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, 1993-4 Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, 2001
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: American Association of University Professors American Historical Association World History Association Council on Contemporary Families (former national co-chair)
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