Craig Kaplowitz, Sabbatical Fellow, Judson University

Birthplace :: Upper Saddle River, New Jersey B.A. in History and Economics, Wake Forest University M.A. in American History, Vanderbilt University Ph.D. in American History, Vanderbilt University

Craig Kaplowitz joins ASP for the 2008-2009 academic year as a Faculty Sabbatical Fellow.  He is an associate professor of history at Judson University in Elgin, IL, and previously taught at Middle Tennessee State University and at Vanderbilt University.  He is an historian of American politics and domestic policy development since World War II, particularly in the areas of the presidency, civil rights, immigration, and ethnicity.  He is author of LULAC, Mexican Americans, and National Policy (Texas A&M University Press, 2005) and articles in the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal, the Journal of Policy History, and Presidential Studies Quarterly.  While in Washington with ASP, Craig will complete archival research for two new articles on immigration reform during the 1980s, and will conduct preliminary research on housing and urban policy reforms during the same decade.  Professionally, Craig holds membership in the Organization of American Historians, The Historical Society, and the Conference on Faith and History.  At home in Elgin he is a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church and is a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA).