Gregory Sumner
Gregory D. Sumner is a professor of History at University of Detroit Mercy and the author of the books Dwight Macdonald and the Politics Circle, ''Unstuck in Time: A Journey Through Kurt Vonnegut's Life and Novels, and Detroit in World War II''.
Early career
Sumner received his Juris Doctor degree in 1980 from the University of Michigan Law School and went on to practice as a corporate attorney at Bingham Summers Welsh & Spilman, Esq. in IndianapolisTransition to history
Following his interests, Sumner went back to school and received his doctorate in American history from Indiana University in 1992. He became an assistant professor at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids for one year before joining the history department at University of Detroit Mercy in 1993.Sumner is co-chair of the UDM Department of History.
Awards and fellowships
- William J. Fulbright Lecturer at University of Rome III in Rome, Italy
- National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship at City College of New York
- National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship at UCLA
Writings
Books
Michigan WWII POW Camps.Detroit in World War II.Welcome to the Monkey House: The Special Edition.Unstuck in Time: A Journey Through Kurt Vonnegut's Life and Novels- ''Dwight Macdonald and the Politics Circle: The Challenge of Cosmopolitan Democracy''
Articles
- "", thenewinquiry.com
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- "Soldiers of Conscience", Peace Review
- "", New Politics
- "", Indiana Magazine of History
- "No Easy Exit", Una Citta
- "Miasma of Trouble at the White House", Una Citta
- "Four More Years: Reflections on the 2004 Election", Una Citta
- "Dwight Macdonald," entry for Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers
- "Iraq and the Tragic Lessons of Force," Una Citta
- "Notes on the Iraq War" Una Citta
- "Remembering an Expansive Decade", New Politics
- "The politics Circle and the Search for a Third Camp," in ''Twenty Four Ways of Looking at Mary McCarthy''