2115 Francis Scott Key
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
phone: 301-405-4308
fax: 301-314-9399
Email: gilbertj@umd.edu

           Professor Gilbert has authored nine monographs. He is the co-editor of three other books and co-author of a text in American history. His most recent works are Men In the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s; Explorations of American Culture and Redeeming Culture: American Religion in an Age of Science. His Perfect Cities: Chicago's Utopias in the 1890s was chosen by the N.Y. Times as one of its "Notable Books of 1991." A Cycle of Outrage: America's Reaction to the Juvenile Delinquent in the 1950s was the Oxford University Press entry for the Pulitzer Prize. In 1977 he won the prize for best article of the year from the Popular Culture Association. Professor Gilbert has held several fellowships, including an NEH and Fulbrights to Australia and Sweden. He has also been a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center, the Rutgers University Center for Historical Analysis, and the Rockefeller Center at Bellagio, Italy. He has been Visiting Lecturer at Columbia Teachers College, the University of Paris, and Sydney University and has held the Walt Whitman Chair at Amsterdam University. In 1997 he was named Hooker Distinguished Professor by McMaster University in Ontario. He has held office in the AHA and OAH and has acted as consultant and reviewer for the NEH, National Public Radio American Writers' Series, the National Geographic Society, and the Library of Congress. He has also served as Acting Chair of the Departments of Art and Art History and the Department of History. He is founder of the Center for Historical Studies at the University of Maryland.

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