Alan Charles Kors

University of
Pennsylvania
Ph.D., Harvard University

Alan Charles Kors is a Professor of History at the
University of Pennsylvania, where he has been teaching
since 1968. He received his Bachelor’s degree from
Princeton University and his Master's and Doctoral
degrees from Harvard University.

Professor Kors is the author and editor of several
books on European intellectual history, including
D’Holbach’s Coterie: An Enlightenment in Paris;
Atheism in France, 1660-1729: The Orthodox Sources of
Disbelief; and Anticipations of the
Enlightenment in England, France, and Germany. He
is editor-in-chief of the four-volume Oxford University
Press Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment.

Professor Kors has served as a member of the Council
of the National Endowment for the Humanities and on the
editorial boards of several scholarly journals. He has
received postdoctoral fellowships from the American
Council of Learned Societies, the Davis Center for
Historical Studies at Princeton University, and the
Smith Richardson Foundation.

Professor Kors has won two awards for distinguished
college teaching and the Engalitcheff Award for defense
of academic freedom. With Harvey A. Silverglate, he is
co-author of The Shadow University: The Betrayal of
Liberty on America’s Campuses. He is president of
the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.

Courses by this
professor:
Birth
of the Modern Mind: The Intellectual History of the 17th
and 18th Centuries >
Great
Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd
Edition >
Power
over People & Birth of the Modern Mind
(Set) >
Voltaire
and the Triumph of the Enlightenment >

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