Life
Lears was educated at the University of Virginia, the University of North Carolina, and Yale University, where he received a Ph.D. in American Studies.
He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Winterthur Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University. In October 2003 he received the Public Humanities Award from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, and in 2009 he was elected a Fellow of the American academy of Arts and Sciences.
He has been a regular contributor to The New Republic , The Nation , The Los Angeles Times , The Washington Post , The New York Times , and other publications.
He has taught at Yale University, the University of Missouri, and New York University.
Lears is the Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University and editor-in-chief of the Raritan Quarterly Review .
He has written essays and reviews in The New York Times , The Nation , The New York Review of Books , the London Review of Books , The New Republic , and other magazines.
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