Thirty years after Lasch’s death, how should we remember him?
Catherine Tumber
Catherine Tumber holds a doctorate in U.S. social and cultural history from the University of Rochester, where she studied with Christopher Lasch. Her books include a critical study of gnostic feminism titled American Feminism and the Birth of New Age Spirituality: Searching for the Higher Self 1875-1915 (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002) and Small Gritty and Green: The Promise of America’s Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World (MIT Press, 2012). Her essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in the Baffler, Boston Review, Raritan, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, The Nation, the Washington Post, The American Prospect, Wilson Quarterly, Architectural Record, In These Times, and American Literary History, among others. To learn more about her work, visit https://catherinetumber.com/.