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Eric Slauter Associate Professor, Department of English Language & Literature; Director, Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture Areas of Expertise:
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Background:
Eric Slauter specializes in American cultural, intellectual and literary history, with additional research and teaching interests in law and political thought, art and material culture, and the history of the book. He is currently completing a book entitled The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the Constitution, which explores the making and meaning of the U.S. Constitution in the context of lingering questions of Enlightenment politics. Slauter has held research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He currently serves as a faculty sponsor for the American Cultures Workshop and is a scholar in residence and former fellow at the Newberry Library, where he co-coordinates the Seminar in Early American History and Culture.
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Chicago establishes Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture |
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Scherer gift will help create center to study American culture November 15, 2007 Scherer gift will help create center to study American culture |
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