Portrait of John McCole

John McCole

Associate Professor Emeritus
History
mccole@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5906
Office: 303 McKenzie Hall, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: Fall 2026: Wednesdays 11-1 in McKenzie 366, or email me for a Zoom link, or else by appointment

Biography

  • Associate Professor, specializing in modern European intellectual history, modern Germany, and twentieth-century Europe
  • A.B. Brown University, 1975
  • Ph.D. Boston University, 1988
  • Assistant and Associate Professor, Harvard University, 1987-1994
  • Visiting Associate Professor, Harvard University, 1998-99
  • At the U of O since 1994
  • History Department Head, 2006-14

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Research

  • Berlin Crossings:  Georg Simmel on Identity

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Publications

  • Walter Benjamin and the Antinomies of Tradition (Cornell University Press, 1993)
  • On Max Horkheimer:  New Perspectives, ed. with Seyla Benhabib and Wolfgang Bonss (MIT Press, 1993)
  • "Georg Simmel and the Philosophy of Religion," New German Critique 94 (Winter 2005)
  • “Memorial: Fritz Ringer, 1934-2006,” Central European History 39 (2006)
  • "Geheimnis und schriftlicher Verkehr: Georg Simmel, Sprache, und Deutsch--Jüdische Selbstinszenierung," in Meine Sprache ist Deutsch: Deutsche Sprachkultur von Juden und die Geisteswissenschaften, 1870-1970 (2015)
  • "Georg Simmel: Decentering the Self and Recovering Authentic Individuality," Germanic Review 94 (2019)

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