Tom Arnold-Forster
Sanderson Junior Research Fellow in History
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My research focuses on the political and intellectual history of the modern United States, with intersecting interests in the history of political thought. My first book,聽Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography聽(Princeton, 2025), provides a new historical account of a prominent journalist and political theorist who shaped the development of American liberalism and democratic theory across the twentieth century. I have also published articles on urban politics, media history, the history of jazz, and other topics. My current book project explores the relationship between corruption and the public sphere from Progressive Era muckraking to the Watergate crisis.
As the Kinder Career Development Fellow at the RAI, I work with colleagues at the University of Missouri in delivering the Kinder Institute鈥檚 MA in Atlantic History and Politics. Before joining Oxford in January 2025, I taught US history and the history of political thought at King鈥檚 College London for three years. I completed my BA, MPhil, and PhD at the University of Cambridge, where I was also a Junior Research Fellow. My research has been supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Library of Congress, the University of Chicago Library, and the Newberry Library in Chicago.
Publications
聽(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2025).
鈥�,鈥� American Journalism 40, no. 1 (2023): 51鈥�79. [Winner of the Society for US Intellectual History鈥檚 2024 Dorothy Ross Prize for best article in US intellectual history]
鈥�,鈥� Historical Journal 65, no. 5 (2022): 1374鈥�96.
鈥�,鈥� Journal of American Studies 56, no. 1 (2022): 142鈥�66.
鈥�,鈥� Historical Journal 63, no. 5 (2020): 1390鈥�1400.
鈥�,鈥� Modern Intellectual History 16, no. 2 (2019): 561鈥�92.
鈥�,鈥� and the Role of the Jazz Ambassador,鈥� Journal of American Studies 51, No. 1 (2017): 117鈥�39.
I鈥檝e also written reviews and essays for Global Intellectual History, American Political Thought, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, and Dissent.