Lafayette Campus News (www.lafayette.edu), November 12, 2004 — Stephen Whitfield, Max Richter Professor of American Civilization, will give a lecture titled “An Appreciation of American Jewish Humor” 8 p.m. Monday in Oechsle Hall room 224.

The talk is sponsored by the Jewish studies and American studies programs, the religious studies department, and Hillel Society.

Whitfield is the author of eight books, including In Search of American Jewish Culture (1999) and The Culture of the Cold War (1991), and is editor of A Companion to 20th-Century America (2004). He has served as visiting professor of American studies at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Sorbonne, and the University of Munich.

He has received Fulbright Visiting Professorships for appointments to Catholic University of Leuven and Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) in 1993 and Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1983-84, the Louis Dembitz Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching in 1993, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship (Bellagio) in 1991, and the Eugene Kayden Award at University of Colorado in 1981.

He earned his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1972, master’s degree from Yale University in 1966, and bachleor’s degree from Tulane University in 1964.