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Daniel Horowitz (born March 23, 1938) is a historian and writer on American culture. He is currently the Mary Huggins Gamble Professor of American Studies, Emeritus, at Smith College. He is a graduate of Yale College and earned a PhD in history at Harvard.

Career

Horowitz spent the first part of his career at Scripps College in California (1973-88), where he served as Nathaniel Wright Stephenson Professor of History and Biography,  and at Smith College (1989 to 2012) where he directed the American Studies program for 18 years. For 2010-11, he was the Ray A. Billington Visiting Professor of U.S. History at Occidental College and the Huntington Library.

Among the honors he has received are fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, two from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and one from the National Humanities Center; and an appointment as Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, Harvard University. In 1997, the American Studies Association awarded him the Constance Rourke Prize for his 1996 article "Rethinking Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique: Labor Union Radicalism and Feminism in Cold War America," American Quarterly. The American Studies Association awarded him its 2003 Mary C. Turpie Prize for "outstanding abilities and achievement in American Studies teaching, advising, and program development at the local or regional level."

Among Horowitz's publications are The Morality of Spending: Attitudes Toward the Consumer Society in America, 1875-1940 (1985), selected by Choice as one of the outstanding academic books of 1985; Vance Packard and American Social Criticism (1994); Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique: The American Left, The Cold War, Modern Feminism (1998); The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979 (2004), selected by Choice as one of the outstanding books of 2004 and winner of the Eugene M. Kayden Prize for the best book published in the humanities in 2004 by a university press; Consuming Pleasures: Intellectuals and Popular Culture in the Postwar World (2012); On the Cusp: Yale College Class of 1960 and a World on the Verge of Change (2015); Happier? The History of A Cultural Movement That Aspired to Transform America (2018); Entertaining Entrepreneurship: Reality TV's Shark Tank and the American Dream in Uncertain Times (2020); American Dreams, American Nightmares: Culture and Crisis in Residential Real Estate from the Great Recession to the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022). His next book is Bear With Me: A Cultural History of Famous Bears in America (2025), that will be published by the Duke University Press in 2025.

Personal Life

Horowitz lives with his wife, the historian Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They are the parents of two children—Ben, a computer scientist in the Bay Area and Sarah, a Professor of History at Washington and Lee University.