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University of California
Davis
Department of History
2216 Social Sciences & Humanities
Davis, CA 95616

Eric Rauchway

Professor of History
University of California Davis

Eric Rauchway is the author of the Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction and Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America among other books. He is a professor of history at the University of California, Davis.

Issues: Anti-Trust Regulations, Austerity, Bank Bail Out, Bank Bonuses, Banking and Finance, Budget and Tax Policy, Business, Capitalism, Developing Economies, Economic Mobility, Economic Theory, Efficient Government, Globalization, Government Investment, International Competition, Jobs, Keynes v. Friedman, Labor Force, Living Wage, Monetary Policy, Multi-national corporations, Privatization, Retirement, Social Insurance, Social Investment, Social Security, The Federal Reserve, Trade, Unemployment Insurance, Unions, US Infrastructure

Experience:

• Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Davis, 2001-2005
• University Lecturer, Faculty of Modern History, University of Oxford, 1998-2001
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Nevada, Reno, 1996-1998

Education:

Ph.D., History, Stanford University, 1996
A.B. Cum Laude with Distinction in all Subjects, History,
Cornell University, 1991

Books:

The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America. Hill & Wang, 2006.

Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt’s America. Hill & Wang, 2003.

The Refuge of Affections: Family and American Reform Politics, 1900-1920. Columbia University Press, 2001.