Thomas Wheatland, Ph.D

Degrees Earned

Ph.D., Boston College, History
MA, Boston College, History
BA, Brown University, Double Major in History and Psychology

Undergraduate Courses Taught

Modern Europe and the United States 1 (1200 - 1815)
Modern Europe and the United States 2 (1815 - present)
Western Civilization 1 (Antiquity – 1715)
Western Civilization 2 (1715 – present)
European History 1 (Antiquity – 1715)
European History 2 (1715 – present)
German History since 1870
Totalitarianism and Everyday Life
19th Century European Diplomatic History
20th Century European Diplomatic History
Rise and Decline of European Primacy, 1870 – present
Hitler’s Vienna
The Weimar Republic (Proseminar)
Hitler’s Exiles (Seminar)

Publications & Editorships

The Frankfurt School in Exile [paperback edition] (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, April 2023) Weblink: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-frankfurt-school-in-exile

Learning from Franz L. Neumann: Law, Theory, and the Brute Facts of Political Life, co-author David Kettler (London & New York: Anthem Press, 2019) Weblink: https://www.anthempress.com/index.php/learning-from-franz-l-neumann-hb
Interview: https://newbooksnetwork.com/david-kettler-and-thomas-wheatland-learning-from-franz-l-neumann-anthem-press-2019

The Frankfurt School in Exile (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, April 2009) Weblink: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-frankfurt-school-in-exile
Interview: https://newbooksnetwork.com/thomas-wheatland-the-frankfurt-school-in-exile
Interview: https://kpfa.org/episode/62725/

Editorial Board, Berlin Journal of Critical Theory (2017-present) Weblink: https://www.bjct.de/home.html

“Philosophical Flaschenposten: Critical Theory and the Transatlantic History of Postwar Philosophy,” American Philosophy and the Intellectual Migration: Pragmatism, Logical Empiricism, Phenomenology, Critical Theory, edited by Sander Verhaegh (Berlin: De Gruyter, forthcoming)

Review of Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times by Samuel Moyn for Choice Reviews (forthcoming)

Review of Warping Time: How Contending Political Forces Manipulate the Past, Present and Future by Benjamin Ginsberg and Jennifer Bachner for Choice Reviews, vol. 61, no. 4 (December 2023)

Review of The Invention of Marxism: How an Idea Changed Everything by Christina Morina for Choice Reviews, vol. 61, no. 2 (October 2023)

Review of The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism by Matt Zwolinski & John Tomasi for Choice Reviews, vol. 61, no. 1 (September 2023)

Review of Georg Lukács and Critical Theory: Aesthetics, History, Utopia by Tyrus Miller for Choice Reviews, vol. 60, no. 11 (July 2023)

Review of Afro-Sweden: Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country by Ryan Thomas Skinner for Choice Reviews, vol. 60, no. 10 (June 2023)

Review of Anticolonial Eruptions: Racial Hubris and the Cunning of Resistance by Geo Maher for Choice Reviews, vol. 60, no. 6 (February 2023)

Review of Utopianism for a Dying Planet: Life after Consumerism by Gregory Claeys for Choice Reviews, vol. 60, no. 5 (January 2023)

Review of The Class Matrix: Social Theory after the Cultural Turn by Vivek Chibber for Choice Reviews, vol. 60, no. 3 (November 2022)

Review of Erich Fromm and Global Public Sociology by Neil McLaughlin for the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, vol. 58, no. 4 (Fall 2022)

Review of Between Containment and Rollback: The United States and the Cold War in Germany by Christian Ostermann for Choice Reviews, vol. 59, no. 12 (August 2022)

Review of Selected Writings on Marxism by Stuart Hall for Choice Reviews, vol. 59, no. 5 (January 2022)

Review of Restless Ideas: Contemporary Social Theory in an Anxious Age by Tony Simmons for Choice Reviews, vol. 59, no. 2 (October 2021)

Review of Employing Nietzsche’s Sociological Imagination by Jack Fong for Choice Reviews, vol. 58, no. 12 (August 2021)

Review of The Invention of the Self: Personal Identity in the Age of Art by Andrew Spira for Choice Reviews, vol. 58, no. 10 (June 2021)

“Denazification & Post-War German Philosophy: The Marcuse/Heidegger Correspondence,” The End of Exile: First Letters to and from Thomas Mann, Hannah Arendt, and Others, edited by David Kettler and Detlef Garz (New York: Anthem Press, 2021)

Review of A Companion to Antonio Gramsci: Essays on History and Theories of History, Politics and Historiography edited by Davide Cadeddu for Choice Reviews, vol. 58, no. 5 (January 2021)

Review of Power in Modernity: Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King’s Two Bodies by Isaac Arial Reed for Choice Reviews, vol. 58, no. 4 (December 2020)

Review of Theodor Adorno and the Century of Negative Identity by Eric Oberle for The American Historical Review, vol. 125, no. 5 (December 2020)

Review of A Time for Critique edited by Didier Fassin & Bernard Harcourt for Choice Reviews, vol. 57, no. 9 (May 2020)

Review of Jewish Exiles and European Thought in the Shadow of the Third Reich: Baron, Popper, Strauss, Auerbach by David Weinstein and Avihu Zakai for Central European History (March 2020)

Review of Born After: Reckoning with the German Past by Angelika Bammer for Choice Reviews, vol. 57, no. 3 (November 2019)

Review of Habermas: A Biography by Stefan Müller-Doohm for The American Historical Review, vol. 123, no. 5 (December 2018)

“The Experience of Exile,” The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School, edited by Axel Honneth, Peter Gordon, and Espen Hammer (New York: Routledge, 2018)

“Critical Theory: The Los Angeles Years,” Berlin Journal of Critical Theory, vol. 1, no. 2 (December 2017)

Review of Arendt and America by Richard King for Society, vol. 54, no. 2 (April 2017)

Review of The Weimar Century: German Émigrés and the Ideological Dimensions of the Cold War by Udi Greenberg for The American Historical Review, vol. 121, no. 5 (December 2016)

Roundtable review of The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism, by Jack Jacobs for German Quarterly, vol. 89, no. 1 (January 2016)

“Franz L. Neumann: Negotiating Political Exile,” in “More Atlantic Crossings?: The Postwar Atlantic Community,” German Historical Institute Bulletin Supplement, edited by Jan Logemann and Mary Nolan (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014)

“’Has Germany a Political Theory? Is Germany a State?’ The Foreign Affairs of Nations in the Political Thought of Franz L. Neumann” (co-written with David Kettler), Émigré Scholars and the Genesis of International Relations: A European Discipline in America?, edited by Felix Rösch (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)

“How Can We Tell It to the Children? A Deliberation at the Institute for Social Research, 1941” (co-written with David Kettler), Thesis Eleven: Critical Theory and Historical Sociology, no. 111 (August 2012)

“Debate about Methods in the Social Sciences, Especially the Conception of Social Science Method for Which the Institute Stands” (trans. with David Kettler), Thesis Eleven: Critical Theory and Historical Sociology, no. 111 (August 2012)

Review of Heidegger in America, by Martin Woessner for The American Historical Review, vol. 117, no. 3 (June 2012), 879

Review of Habermas: An Intellectual Biography, by Matthew G. Specter for Central European History, vol. 45, no. 1 (March 2012), 169-172

“Marcuse schreibt an Heidegger: Welcher Kontext sollte eine Interpretation formen?” in Erste Briefe: First Letters aus dem Exil, 1945-1950, edited by David Kettler and Detlef Garz (München: Text & Kritik, 2012)

“An Adorno Renaissance? Critical Theory and George W. Bush’s America,” review of Things Beyond Resemblance: Collected Essays on Theodor W. Adorno, by Robert Hullot-Kentor, H-German (July 2007)

“In den Armen der Alma Mater: Die Frankfurter Schule an der Columbia Universität,” in Veränderte Weltbilder: Hannoversche Schriften, Band 6, edited by Detlev Claussen, Oskar Negt, and Michael Werz (Frankfurt-am-Main: Neue Kritik, 2005)

“Not-Such-Odd Couples: Paul Lazarsfeld, the Horkheimer Circle, and Columbia University,” in Exile, Science, and Bildung: The Contested Legacies of German Émigré Intellectuals, edited by David Kettler and Gerhard Lauer (New York: Palgrave, 2005)

“Critical Theory on Morningside Heights: From Frankfurt Mandarins to Columbia Sociologists,” German Politics and Society, Volume 22, no. 4 (Winter 2004)

“Critical Theory on Morningside Heights: The Frankfurt School’s Invitation from Columbia University,” German Politics and Society, Volume 22, no. 3 (Fall 2004)

“Contested Legacies: Political Theory and the Hitler Era” (co-written with David Kettler), in the European Journal of Political Theory, special edition edited by David Kettler and Thomas Wheatland (April 2004)