Donald T. Critchlow

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Donald T. Critchlow is a historian specializing in American political history.

Critchlow was born in Pasadena, California in 1948, and graduated from Maryville High School in Phoenix, Arizona. He graduated from San Francisco State University in 1968 and received his M.A. (1972) and Ph.D. (1978) from the University of California, Berkeley. Critchlow was an associate professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, before moving to Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri as a professor of history.

He has also been been a visiting professor at University of Hong Kong (1997-98) and University of Warsaw in Poland (1988-89).

Critchlow is the author of five books: The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, Fall 2007), Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2005), Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government in Modern America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999); and Studebaker: The Life and Death of an American Corporation (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1996). He has also co-authored a textbook on American history with Paula Baker and William Rorabaugh, and edited a five-volume history of the United States published in Warsaw, Poland. He has edited numerous other works.

In 1987, he co-founded the quarterly interdisciplinary Journal of Policy History. Published by Penn State University Press, the Journal has published a number of prize winning essays and sponsors a biannual interdisciplinary conference. In college, Critchlow considered himself a New Left, but has in later years he has been influenced by classical republican political thought.

He is married to Patricia Powers Critchlow and they have two daughters, Agnieszka Critchlow and Magda Critchlow.

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