Robert Abzug is a historian, author, and a professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Professor Abzug’s scholarship explores the formation of social and moral consciousness in American culture. He has worked in three major fields: social reform and religious life in antebellum America, America, and the Holocaust, and, most recently, the interpenetration of religion and psychology in modern American culture. His research has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and numerous other foundations.
He is in the final stages of preparing a biography of the American psychologist, Rollo May. In addition, he has published a new edition for classroom use of William James’s Varieties of Religious Experience (2012). He is currently doing research on Jews and other minorities in the state of Montana and will be producing a volume for University of Texas Press’s Texas Bookshelf on insiders and outsiders and the creation of the Texas myth. He also edits a book series for UT Press, Exploring Jewish Arts and Culture.