Robert H. Abzug

Robert H. Abzug is Oliver H. Radkey Regents Professor of History, Professor of American Studies, and director of the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has received several teaching awards. He has also taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, and held the Eric Voegelin Visiting Professorship at the University of Munich. He has published widely in a number of fields, including the Holocaust, antebellum America, and the history of religion in America. Among his major publications are Passionate Liberator: Theodore Dwight Weld and the Dilemma of Reform (1980); Inside the Vicious Heart: America and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps (1985); Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination (1994); and has edited an edition of William James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience for Bedford/St. Martins. He is currently finishing a biography of American psychologist Rollo May.