Stephen Kern
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Humanities Distinguished Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Modern European Cultural History
- Modernism
- World War I
- Religion in History
- Environment, Health, Technology, and Science
Stephen Kern taught at Northern Illinois University, completing his time there as a Distinguished Research Professor, before coming to Ohio State in 2002. He was appointed a Humanities Distinguished Professor at Ohio State in 2004. He has been awarded A.C.L.S., N.E.H., Rockefeller, and Guggenheim Fellowships and received the Ohio Academy of History Distinguished Historian Award for 2007.
He specializes in modern European and American cultural and intellectual history. His publications include Anatomy and Destiny: A Cultural History of the Human Body (1975); The Culture of Time and Space: 1880-1918 (1983, 2003); The Culture of Love: Victorians to Moderns (1992); Eyes of Love: The Gaze in English and French Paintings and Novels (1996); A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought (2004); The Modernist Novel: A Critical Introduction (2011); Modernism After the Death of God: Christianity, Fragmentation, and Unification (2017); Time and Space in the Internet Age (2025); and Origins and Foundations in the Modernist Age (forthcoming). He is currently working on a book on the origins of World War I.
Project Q: Peace & Security in a Quantum Age - Interview of Professor Kern
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