A Confersation with Ole Mouritsen, Odense, Denmark
John Gillis is a Rutgers University Professor Emeritus of History who resides for most of the year in Berkeley, California. In the summer, he can be found on Great Gott Island, off Acadia National Park in Maine.
John Gillis in the New York Times
New York Times Op-ed
Human Shore reviewed by Boston Globe
‘The Human Shore’ by John R. Gillis and ‘Among the Islands’ by Tim Flannery.
A World of Their Own Making: Myth. Ritual. and the Ouest for Family Values
“…a tour de force of accessible scholarship, written with vigor and grace.”
Jackson Lears,
John Gillis in the The Chronicle of Higher Education Review
The Coastal Consciousness of John Gillis
” Clamorous and gusting, Superstorm Sandy blew ashore last fall with a force that felt…”
John Gillis Featured in Humanities
“In studying the sea, we are returning to our beginnings.”
John Gillis on the Maine Public Broadcasting Network
“Humankind’s obsession with living near the ocean. The good, the bad and the sandy.”
Human Shore interview by New Books in History
“Americans are moving to the ocean. Every year, more and more Americans move to–or are born in– the coasts and fewer and fewer remain in–or are born in–the interior.”
- Life and Death of the Beach(2012) New York Times op-ed
- The Human Shore: Seacoasts in History (2012)
- Islands of the Mind: How the Human Imagination Created the Atlantic World (2004)
- Becoming Historians (2009)
- A World of Their Own Making: Myth, Ritual, and the Quest for Family Values (1996)
- Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity (1996)
- Youth and History: Tradition and Change in European Age Relations, 1770-Present (Studies in Social Discontinuity) (1975)
- For Better, For Worse: British Marriages, 1600 to the Present (1985)
- The Development of European Society, 1770-1870 (1977)
- Militarization Of Western World (1989)
- The European Experience of Fertility Decline, with D. Levine and L. Tilly
- Prussian Bureaucracy in Crisis, 1840-1860: Origins of an Administrative Ethos (1971)
He has taught at Rutgers, Stanford, Princeton, and the University of California at Berkeley, and is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Gillis has been a Visiting Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences at Uppsala University. He is also a Fulbright Senior Scholar.