Caroline Winterer in New England

Caroline Winterer is a William Robertson Coe Professor of American History and Chair of the Department of History at Stanford. Raised in Europe and the U.S., she’s a native speaker of both English and French. She has authored or co-authored six books, including most recently How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America (Princeton, 2024). She has won many awards for teaching and research, taught in the Stanford Bing Overseas Studies Program in Paris, and frequently lectures for the Stanford Alumni Association.  On this trip she’ll discuss topics including the shift in American art from portraits to landscapes, the impact of glaciers on New England, and the influence of fossil fuels and railroads on 19th-century American culture and art.

• Professor, since 2010, assistant and associate professor, 2004–2010, and current chair, department of history, Stanford University

• Professor, by courtesy, department of classics, since 2011, Stanford University

• Director and Anthony P. Meier Family Professor in the Humanities, 2013–2019, Stanford Humanities Center

• Recipient of numerous fellowships: from the Mellon Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Stanford Humanities Center and the Spencer Foundation, among others

• BA (cum laude), history, 1988, Pomona College

• MA, 1991, and PhD, 1996—both history, University of Michigan