Peter Novick

Peter Novick is an award-winning historian.  In his career, Novick taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Northwestern University; Pennsylvania State University, and lastly at the University of Chicago, where he served for over 30 years. Novick’s best known publications are That Noble Dream: The ‘Objectivity Question’ and the American Historical Profession, which won the American Historical Association’s Albert J. Beveridge Prize for best book of 1989 in American history; and 1999’s controversial The Holocaust in American Life. Novick’s scholarship asks us to reconsider the goal of objectivity in historical work, and demands attention to the narratives we tell about our pasts.  He served as president of the University of Chicago chapter of the American Association of University Professors and as a member of the Council of the University Senate.