Robert H. Abzug

Robert H. Abzug taught at the University of Texas at Austin from 1978 to 2020, and is presently Audre and Bernard Rapoport Regents Chair of Jewish Studies Emeritus and Professor of History and American Studies Emeritus at UT. He was the founding Director of the University's Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies (2007-2017). He also held the Eric Voegelin Visiting Professorship at the University of Munich in 1990-91.

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: His most recent book,Psyche and Soul in America: The Spiritual Odyssey of Rollo May was published in 2021 and in Chinese translation in 2024. He has also edited and annotated an abridged edition of William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience.