{{short description|American historian and critic (born 1966)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2023}} {{Use American English|date=October 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = Kevin Mattson | image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1966|12|25}} | birth_place = Cheverly, Maryland, US | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (enter DEATH date then BIRTH date (e.g., ...|1967|8|31|1908|2|28}} use both this parameter and |birth_date to display the person's date of birth, date of death, and age at death) --> | death_place = | party = Democratic | spouse = <!-- use article title or common name --> | awards = <!--notable national-level awards only--> | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> | module = {{Infobox academic |child=yes | alma_mater = {{ubl | New School for Social Research | University of Rochester}} | thesis_title = Creating a Democratic Public | thesis_year = 1994 | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = Christopher Lasch | academic_advisors = | influences = <!--must be referenced from a third-party source--> | discipline = History | sub_discipline = American history | workplaces = {{ubl | Rochester Institute of Technology | Rutgers University | Ohio University}} | doctoral_students = <!--only those with WP articles--> | notable_students = | main_interests = | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced = <!--must be referenced from a third-party source--> | signature = | signature_alt = }} | signature = | signature_alt = }} '''Kevin Mattson''' (born 1966) is an American historian and critic. Mattson received his BA from the New School for Social Research and his PhD from the University of Rochester. For several years he ran the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy at Rutgers University.<ref>{{cite web|website=American Progress |url=http://www.americanprogress.org/kf/060522%20upton%20sinclair.pdf |title=Upton Sinclair and the Other American Century |date=May 22, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314032912/http://www.americanprogress.org/kf/060522%20upton%20sinclair.pdf |archive-date=March 14, 2012 |access-date=June 10, 2010}}</ref>
He is the Connor Study Professor of Contemporary History at Ohio University.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ohio.edu/cas/mattson |title=College of Arts & Sciences | Ohio University}}</ref> He is a fellow at the Center for American Progress and on the editorial board of ''Dissent''.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Dissent |url=https://www.dissentmagazine.org/about-dissent-magazine/masthead |title=About Dissent |access-date=March 2, 2016}}</ref>
He has received College of Arts & Sciences award for the Outstanding Faculty Research and Scholarship in the Social Sciences 2013–2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ohio-forum.com/2014/06/history-faculty-members-win-college-of-arts-sciences-awards/ |title=History Faculty Members Win College of Arts & Sciences Awards |date=June 10, 2014 |website=Ohio University | College of Arts & Sciences}}</ref>
== Works == * ''Creating a Democratic Public: The Struggle for Urban Participatory Democracy During the Progressive Era'' (diss., 1998) * ''Intellectuals in Action: The Origins of the New Left and Radical Liberalism, 1945-1970'' (2002) * ''Engaging Youth: Combating the Apathy of Young Americans Toward Politics'' (2003) * ''Upton Sinclair and the Other American Century'' (2006)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Eby |first=Clare Virginia |date=2009 |title=Review of Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair; Upton Sinclair and the Other American Century |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/amerlitereal.42.1.0088 |journal=American Literary Realism |volume=42 |issue=1 |pages=88–90 |doi=10.5406/amerlitereal.42.1.0088 |issn=1540-3084}}</ref> * ''When America Was Great: The Fighting Faith of Liberalism in Post-War America'' (2004, 2nd ed. 2006) * ''Rebels All! A Short History of the Conservative Mind in Postwar America'' (2008) * ''What the Heck Are You Up To Mr. President? Jimmy Carter, America's Malaise and the Speech That Should Have Changed the Country'' (2009) * ''Just Plain Dick: Richard Nixon's Checkers Speech and the 'Rocking, Socking' Election of 1952'' (2012) * ''We're Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America'' (2020)
;Edited books * ''Steal This University: The Rise of the Corporate University and the Academic Labor Movement'', ed. with Benjamin Johnson and Patrick Kavanagh (2003) * ''Liberalism for a New Century '', ed. with Neil Jumonville (2007) * ''Democracy's Moment : Reforming the American Political System for the 21st Century'' ed. with Ronald Hayduk (2002) * ''The Cause: The Fight for American Liberalism from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama'' with Eric Alterman (2012)
;Other writings * Mattson's articles in ''The American Prospect''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://prospect.org/topics/kevin-mattson/ |title=Kevin Mattson |website=The American Prospect}}</ref> * Mattson's articles in ''Dissent''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dissentmagazine.org/author/kevinmattson |title=Kevin Mattson}}</ref> * Mattson's articles in ''Democracy Journal''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://democracyjournal.org/author/kmattson/ |title=Kevin Mattson |website=Democracy Journal}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [https://kevinmattson.wixsite.com/kevinmattson Mattson's personal website] * [https://wwwkevinmmattson.blogspot.fi/ Mattson's blog] {{Authority control}}
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