Patrick Allitt (Emory University)
Patrick Allitt is the Cahoon Family Professor of American History at Emory University. An Americanist specializing in religious, intellectual and environmental history, he earned his PhD in history from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of six books, including I’m the Teacher, You’re the Student: A Semester in the University Classroom (2004) and The Conservatives: Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History (2009). He is currently completing a book, which will be published by Yale University Press, on the history of the intellectual and political opponents of environmentalism, from the 1960s to the early twenty-first century.
