James Turner (historian)

James Turner
Born	James Crewdson Turner (1946-05-25) May 25, 1946 (age 78)
Nationality	American
Academic background
Alma mater	Harvard University
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	Intellectual history
Institutions	College of Charleston University of Massachusetts Boston University of Michigan University of Notre Dame

James Crewdson Turner (born June 25, 1946) is an intellectual historian and Cavanaugh Professor of Humanities Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. After receiving his PhD from Harvard University in 1975, he taught at the College of Charleston (1975–1977), the University of Massachusetts Boston (1977–1984), and the University of Michigan (1984–1995) before moving to Notre Dame.[1]

In 1980, James authored Reckoning with the Beast: Animals, Pain, and Humanity in the Victorian Mind, which documented the history of animal welfare that emerged in Britain during the early 19th-century and spread to the United States after the Civil War.[2][3]

Selected publications

• Reckoning with the Beast: Animals, Pain, and Humanity in the Victorian Mind, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980
• Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985
• The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999[4][5]
• The Sacred and the Secular University (with Jon H. Roberts), Princeton University Press, 2000
• Language, Religion, Knowledge: Past and Present, University of Notre Dame Press, 2003
• The Future of Christian Learning: An Evangelical and Catholic Dialogue (with Mark A. Noll), Brazos Press, 2008
• Religion Enters the Academy: The Origins of the Scholarly Study of Religion in America, University of Georgia Press, 2011
• Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities, Princeton University Press, 2014[6][7]

References

1. "James Turner // Department of History // University of Notre Dame". history.nd.edu. Archived from the original on 2014-12-31.
2. Crangle, John V. (1981). "Reckoning with the Beast: Animals, Pain, and Humanity in the Victorian Mind". The American Historical Review. 86 (5): 1090–1091. doi:10.1086/ahr/86.5.1090.
3. Borell, M. (1982). "James Turner, Reckoning with the Beast: Animals, Pain, and Humanity in the Victorian Mind". Medical History. 26 (2): 218–219. doi:10.1017/S0025727300041314.
4. Turner, James (2002). The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton. JHU Press. ISBN 0-8018-6147-0.
5. Rennella, Mark Ernest (September 2001). "Reviewed Work: The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton by James Turner". Reviews in American History. 29 (3): 388–394. doi:10.1353/rah.2001.0055. JSTOR 30030981. S2CID 143699417.
6. Iyengar, Sunil (20 August 2014). "Review of Philology by James Turmer". The Washington Post.
7. Spillman, Scott (11 November 2014). "Review of Philology by James Turner". Los Angeles Review of Books.