Research
Please don't hesitate to contact me if you would like a copy of my work. I can be reached at charlespetersen@stanford.edu.
Published and Forthcoming
Peer-Reviewed Articles
"Meritocracy in America, 1932-1978," American Historical Review, revise and resubmit.
Essays
"No President," co-authored editorial, n+1, 27, Winter 2017
"Must We Mean What We Say?,” on Stanley Cavell, n+1, February 11, 2013
“Lions in Winter,” on the New York Public Library, n+1, 14, Summer, 2012
“West from Home,” on Marilynne Robinson, Bookforum, 18 (5), Feb/March, 2012
“Unsettled,” on eight books about the Great Plains, The Nation, 291 (14), October 4, 2010
“Addled: What’s Killing The New York Times?,” n+1, 9, Spring 2010
“American Pastoral,” on The National Parks by Ken Burns, n+1, February 26, 2010
“Christian Science,” on Home by Marilynne Robinson, n+1, January 13, 2009
Reviews
The Googlization of Everything by Siva Vaidhyanathan, Bookforum, 18 (1), April/May 2011
“Seeing King Lear,”The Utopian, August 15, 2011
Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman, Los Angeles Times, March 14, 2010
Memoir: A History by Ben Yagoda, San Francisco Chronicle, December 29, 2009
Yours Ever: People and Their Letters by Thomas Mallon, Wall Street Journal, November 18, 2009
The Big Burn by Timothy Egan, Wall Street Journal, October 21, 2009
Crossing the Sierra de Gredos by Peter Handke, The Village Voice, June 26, 2007
Forums
“Part of a Long-Term Plan to Cut Research,” New York Times, May 17, 2012
I am pictured above in Redwood National and State Park and below in Carrizo Plain National Monument.
