Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Daniel J. Singal

Professor Emeritus of History
1980-2014

Daniel J. Singal taught history at Hobart and William Smith from 1980-2014, focusing on American history. He taught such courses as “Introduction to the American Experience,” “The United States Since 1939,” “William Faulkner and the Southern Historical Consciousness,” “Aquarian Age: The United States in the 1960s,” “History of American Thought to 1865” and “History of American Thought Since 1865.”

Prior to his time at HWS, Singal taught at George Washington University and was a Mellon fellow at Tulane University from 1977-1979 and an assistant professor there from 1979-1980. He has been listed as a noteworthy historian by Marquis Who's Who.

Singal received the Ralph Waldo Emerson award from national Phi Beta Kappa, an honor given to the author of the best book in the Humanities published in the United States that year. He has been a Guggenheim fellow, a Howard Foundation Fellow, and has held a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Singal served on the Board of Trustees at The Harley School in Rochester, N.Y. He has been a member of the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the Modernist Studies Association and Southern History Association, winning the Francis B. Simkins Prize in 1983.

Singal holds a Ph.D. with distinction from Columbia University, an M.A. from Columbia University and a B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard College.

Singal is the author of books including William Faulkner: The Making of a Modernist (1997) and The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919-1945 (1982). He edited the books Modernist Culture in America and The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era. His work has been published in Journal of American History, American Historical Review, the Journal of Southern History, Reviews in American History and The Atlantic.

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