Fergus Selsdon Games

I am a History PhD candidate at Sidney Sussex, Cambridge. My project - provisionally titled: Progress, Democracy and John Dewey's Afterlives, 1944-2000 - aims to trace the intellectual afterlives of political philosopher and social critic John Dewey (1859-1952). Narrating a series of criss-crossing revivals in his intellectual and cultural reputation, the dissertation asks: how did America think after Dewey? My research is supervised by Professor Gary Gerstle and sponsored by the Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership and the Isaac Newton Trust.

Prior to Cambridge, I received a BA in Politics and Modern History (University of Manchester) and an MA in United States Studies: History and Politics (UCL). My MA dissertation work centred on ‘textbook activism’ and 1960s-80s conservative education politics in the American South.