Edward Gitre

Edward Gitre (History) is receiving the Dean's Award for Excellence in Research by a Graduate Student for for William James on Divine Intimacy: Psychical Research, Cosmological Realism, and a Circumscribed Re-Reading of the Varieties of Religious Experience and The 1904-05 Welsh Revival: Modernization, Technologies, and Techniques of the Self. Mr. Gitre is currently doing a cultural history of “boredom” in post-World War II U.S. consciousness and culture. This follows ambitious papers on the Welsh Revival and on James’ Varieties. His dissertation will be a major work in interdisciplinary cultural history with potential to be an important revision of our understanding of the U.S. in the post-war period and, says Jackson Lears, his adviser, “promises to illuminate the nascent history of the emotions in new and exciting ways.”