Robert H. Abzug

Robert H. Abzug has taught at the University of Texas at Austin since 1978, and is currently Audre and Bernard Rapoport Regents Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor of History and American Studies. He is the founding Director of the University's Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies (2007-). He also held the Eric Voegelin Visiting Professorship at the University of Munich in 1990-91.

All of Abzug's work centers on the evolution of moral and ethical sensibilities in American society. Two of his books deal with religion and pre-Civil War reform, two others on America and the Holocaust, and two address the intertwined histories of American spiritual life and psychology: A biography of the psychologist Rollo May to be published by Oxford University Press and a recently published abridged edition of William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience for Bedford/​St. Martin's.