James Turner | |
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Born | James Crewdson Turner May 25, 1946 |
Nationality | American |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Harvard University |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | Intellectual history |
Institutions |
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]