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Robert Morse Crunden (December 23, 1940 - March 23, 1999) was an American historian. He was a professor of
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and
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at the
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, and the author of many books.


Early life

Crunden was born on December 23, 1940, in
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. He grew up in
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and
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, Canada. He attended
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, where William H. Goetzmann was one of his professors, and he graduated magna cum laude in 1962. He earned a PhD in History from
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in 1967. His dissertation director was Frank Freidel.


Career

Crunden taught History and American Studies at the
University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public university, public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 stud ...
from 1967 until his death in 1999. He was the director of the American Studies program from 1985 to 1990. He was awarded a Fulbright chair as the Bicentennial Professor of American Studies at the
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in 1976-1977, and he was the director of the American Studies Research Center in
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, India from 1982 to 1984, also thanks to the Fulbright Program. He was awarded a Fulbright senior lectureship to teach at La Trobe University in Australia in 1978. Crunden was the author of many books, including ''American Salons: Encounters with European Modernism, 1885-1917'', which was translated into many languages.


Personal life and death

Crunden had three daughters. He died of a heart attack on March 23, 1999, in
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.


Works

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References

1940 births 1999 deaths Yale University alumni Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Writers from Jersey City, New Jersey Fulbright Distinguished Chairs University of Texas at Austin faculty American expatriates in Canada American expatriates in Australia American expatriates in India American expatriates in Finland Historians from New Jersey {{US-historian-stub