JONATHAN STRASSFELD

Jonathan Strassfeld (CV) is a historian of modern intellectual and social history, focusing on the history of American higher education. His work examines the university as a site of both knowledge production and bureaucratic control to show how everyday administrative needs and institutional practices play a determinative role in the development of discourse, even in a field as seemingly detached from the quotidian as philosophy. His first book, Inventing Philosophy's Other: Phenomenology in America (University of Chicago Press: 2022) is a community study of a geographically disparate group of twentieth century intellectuals that uses mixed methodologies to explain the schism of "analytic" and "continental" traditions in western philosophy. Jonathan Strassfeld received a PhD in History from the University of Rochester and an AB in Philosophy from Princeton University. He is currently a Research Historian at Johns Hopkins University, working on a monograph that will cover the..