Gregory Sumner
Gregory Sumner
Professor of History
Department Co-Chair
Degrees
- J.D. from the University of Michigan
- Ph.D. from Indiana University
- M.A. from Indiana University
- B.A. from Indiana University
Biography
Professor and Co-Chair of History, teaches courses on twentieth-century American politics and culture. He is the author of Dwight Macdonald and the Politics Circle: The Challenge of Cosmopolitan Democracy (1996), Unstuck in Time: A Journey Through Kurt Vonnegut's Life and Novels (2012), Detroit in World War II (2015) and Michigan POW Camps in WWII (2018). A fellow of the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, he also was selected as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Rome (2001, 2010). He joined the University in 1993.
Media Interviews
The Mind's Eye Podcast - April 23, 2019
On the 50th anniversary of Slaughterhouse-Five, Gregory Sumner guides us, with insight and passion, through the life of Kurt Vonnegut and his best known work.