Mind of the Enlightenment

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The Mind of the Enlightenment

Alan Charles Kors, Ph.D.

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Alan Charles Kors, Ph.D.

Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania Alan Kors was born in New Jersey in 1943, and received his bachelors degree summa cum laude, from Princeton University. After winning the undergraduate History Thesis Prize at Princeton, he did post-graduate work at Harvard, where he also earned his MA. and Ph.D. on a Danforth Fellowship, Harvard Prize Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and Dissertation Fellowship; and earned but declined a Fulbright Fellowship. Since 1968, Kors has taught history at the University of Pennsylvania. During his tenure he has intermittently served as the Director of the General Honors Program; Chair of the Committee on Undergraduate Education, and co-founder, resident faculty and finally Housemaster of Van Pelt College House. He is also a member of the Graduate Group, Religious Studies, and has won awards such as the Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching; Research Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies; Director to NEH Summer Seminars for Secondary School Teachers, "The Texts of Toleration," Fellow, Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University; and more recently, the Ira H. Abrams Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching and a University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation Fellowship. A great supporter of Academic Freedom, Kors was the Chair of the Committee on Academic Freedom, American Civil Liberties Union of Greater Philadelphia from 1971-74. He has lectured widely on academic freedom, and published the article "Harassment Policies in the University," in Society, (1991). He is the author of over 40 articles and scholarly papers, and numerous books. His most recent books are Atheism in France, 1650-1729 Volume One: The Orthodox Sources of Disbelief, (1990); Anticipation of the Enlightenment in England, France and Germany, co-editor; author of...