T.J. Jackson Lears

Senior Fellow

Board of Governors Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Rutgers University

T.J. Jackson Lears is the Board of Governors Professor Emeritus of History at Rutgers University and the editor of the distinguished journal Raritan: A Quarterly Review. Lears’ research interests include U.S. cultural and intellectual history, comparative religious history, literature and the visual arts, and folklore and folk beliefs. Lears has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and both the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations. His books include Something for Nothing: Luck in America; Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America, which won the LA Times book prize for history; and No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920.

Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877–1920. HarperCollins, 2009.

Something for Nothing: Luck in America. Viking Penguin, 2003.

No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880–1920. Pantheon, 1981; reissued by University of Chicago Press, 1994; Japanese translation by Shohakusha Publishing, 2011.

Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America. Basic Books, 1994.

The Power of Culture: Critical Essays in American History. Co-edited, University of Chicago Press, 1993.

The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in American History, 1880–1980. Co-edited, Pantheon Books, 1983.

Essays and reviews published in The American Historical Review, American Quarterly, and The Journal of American History; also regular contributions to The New Republic, The Nation, The London Review of Books, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and The New York Times, among other publications and scholarly journals.