Bertram Wyatt-Brown
(March 19, 1932 - November 5, 2012, but always with us in our hearts!)


Life & Work

Bertram Wyatt-Brown is also a Member of the HumanDHS Gobal Advisory Board, and Guest Editor of "Humiliation and History in Global Perspectives," a Special Issue of Social Alternatives (Vol. 25, No. 1, First Quarter, 2006), edited by Ralph Summy.

Richard J. Milbauer Emeritus Professor of History, University of Florida, and Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins University, has published the following works in history: Lewis Tappan and the War against Slavery (1969, 1996); Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South (1982); The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family (1994); The Literary Percys (1994); The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War (2001); Hearts of Darkness: Wellsprings of a Southern Literary Tradition (2003); and (co-editor), Virginia's Civil War (2004).
Bertram Wyatt-Brown earned the B.A. degree at the University of the South (1953), a B.A. (Honours) and M.A. at King's College, Cambridge University (1957, 1961), and his doctoral degree at the Johns Hopkins University (1963) under the late C. Vann Woodward.

Professor Wyatt-Brown has taught at Colorado State University, the University of Colorado, University of Wisconsin, Case Western Reserve University, University of Florida, and the University of Richmond (the Douglas Southall Freeman chair, 2002-03). He served as President of the St. George Tucker Society, the Society for Historians of the Early Republic, and the Southern Historical Association. His awards include: Finalist, Pulitzer Prize and American Book Award (1983); the ABC/Clio Historical Essay Prize (1990); the Henry Luce Foundation Fellowship and NEH Fellowship at the National Humanities Center (1989-90 and 1998-99), the Guggenheim Fellowship (1974-75), and several teaching and graduate student mentoring awards.

Please see also Professor Wyatt-Brown as "History Doyen" at the History News Network of George Mason University.

Professor Wyatt-Brown has kindly accepted the task of being a guest editor of "History and Humiliation," a Special Issue (First or Second Issue of 2006) of
Social Alternatives
, edited by Ralph Summy.

 

Publications & Articles

  Bertram Wyatt-Brown (2010)
George Orwell and the Question of Humiliation in Nineteen Eighty-Four
   
  Bertram Wyatt-Brown (2009)
“Murder by Duel,” Humiliation, Challenge, and Homicide, 2009: A Historian’s Dilemma of Judgment
   
  Bertram Wyatt-Brown (2009)
George Orwell, 1984, Humiliation in Life and Fiction
Abstract presented at the 2009 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 10-11, 2009.
   
  Wyatt-Brown, Bertram (2008)
Trials of Humiliation and Depression in George Orwell's Life and Novel 1984
Abstract prepared for the 2008 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 11-12, 2008.
   
  Wyatt-Brown, Bertram (2007)
T. E. Lawrence, Honor and Humiliation in the Middle East

Abstract prepared for the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007.
   
 

Wyatt-Brown, Bertram (2006)
The Psychology of Humiliation: Mann’s “Mario and the Magician” and Hawthorne’s “Major Molineux, My Kinsman” (2006), abstract prepared for the 23rd International Literature and Psychology Conference 2006, by the Institute for Psychological Study of the Arts (IPSA), University of Florida and the Department of Education, University of Helsinki, and the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 14-15, 2006.

   
  Wyatt-Brown, Bertram
Book in preparation:
Honor and America's War, from the Revolution to Iraq
   
  Wyatt-Brown, Bertram
Book in preparation:
Who Owns the Dead? The Perils of Literary Biography
   
  Wyatt-Brown, Bertram (2006)
Guest Editor's Introduction to the Special Issue 'History and Humiliation' of Social Alternatives
In Social Alternatives (Special Issue "Humiliation and History in Global Perspectives"), Vol. 25, No. 1, First Quarter, pp. 3-4, 2006.
   
  Wyatt-Brown, Bertram (2006)
Honor, Irony, and Humiliation in the Era of American Civil War
In Social Alternatives (Special Issue "Humiliation and History in Global Perspectives"), Vol. 25, No. 1, First Quarter, pp. 22-27, 2006.
   
  Wyatt-Brown, Bertram & Fontan, Victoria C Fontan (2005)
"The Honor Factor"
Op Ed in The Baltimore Sun, January 23, 2005, p. 5F
Please see here the oringal long version.
   
 

Bertram Wyatt-Brown (2005)
The Changing Faces of Honor in National Crises: Civil War, Vietnam, Iraq, and the Southern Factor
The Johns Hopkins History Seminar, Fall 2005.

   

 

Bertram Wyatt-Brown (2004)
Honor, Shame, and Iraq in American Foreign Policy
Note prepared for the Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, November 18-19, 2004.

   
  Bertram Wyatt-Brown (2004)
Announcement of the 2004 James Pinckney Harrison Lectures in History.
   
  Bertram Wyatt-Brown (2004)
Honor and America’s Wars: From Spain to Iraq
The 2004 James Pinckney Harrison Lectures in History, Monday, April 5, 2004, 4:30 PM Small Hall 113
   
  Bertram Wyatt-Brown (2004)
Honor, Secession, and Civil War
The 2004 James Pinckney Harrison Lectures in History, Lyon Gardiner Tyler Department of History, Monday, March 29, 2004, 4:30 PM Andrews Hall 101.
   
  Bertram Wyatt-Brown (2004)
Honor and America’s Wars: From the Revolution to Mexican Conquest
The 2004 James Pinckney Harrison Lectures in History, March 22, 2004, Andrews Hall 101.
   

Bertram Wyatt-Brown (2001)
The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War.
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press

   

Bertram Wyatt-Brown (1982)
Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South (1982)
New York, NY: Oxford University Press