Carl J Guarneri

Carl J. Guarneri is the Brother James Ash Professor of History Emeritus at Saint Mary's College of California, where he has taught since receiving his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1979. He has also been a visiting professor at Colgate University and the University of Paris. A historian of nineteenth-century America, Guarneri has won national fellowships for his research and published prize-winning books and articles on reform movements, utopian socialism, the Civil War and...See more

Carl J. Guarneri is the Brother James Ash Professor of History Emeritus at Saint Mary's College of California, where he has taught since receiving his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1979. He has also been a visiting professor at Colgate University and the University of Paris. A historian of nineteenth-century America, Guarneri has won national fellowships for his research and published prize-winning books and articles on reform movements, utopian socialism, the Civil War and American cultural history. Among these are The Utopian Alternative: Fourierism in Nineteenth-Century American (Cornell University Press, 1991), two collections of essays, and Lincoln's Informer: Charles A. Dana and the Inside Story of the Union War (University Press of Kansas, 2019). He has co-directed two institutes for the National Endowment for the Humanities on "Rethinking America in Global Perspective" at the Library of Congress. His survey-course reader, America Compared: American History in International Perspective (Cengage, 2nd Edition, 2005), and his brief textbook, America in the World: United States History in Global Context (McGraw-Hill, 2007), are seminal undergraduate texts. His anthology, Teaching American History in a Global Context (M.E. Sharpe, 2008), offers a globalizing "toolkit" for U.S. history instructors. Through his publications and presentations, Dr. Guarneri has been a leading voice in the movement to globalize the study and teaching of U.S. history. See less