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Andrew H. Delbanco (born 1952) is an American writer and professor. He is the Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies at Columbia University and the president of the Teagle Foundation.
Andrew Delbanco, winner of the Great Teacher Award from the Society of Columbia Graduates, is the author of College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be (2012), Melville: His World and Work (2005), The Death of Satan (1995), Required Reading: Why Our American Classics Matter Now (1997), The Real American Dream (1999), and The Puritan Ordeal (1989), ...
Andrew Delbanco is a scholar of American literature, history, and higher education. He has written several books, including The War Before the War, College, and Melville, and received the National Humanities Medal and the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities.
Andrew Delbanco, a renowned scholar of American history and culture, will deliver the 2022 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on October 19, 2022. The lecture, titled "The Question of Reparations: Our Past, Our Present, Our Future," will explore the debate on slavery and its legacy in the United States.
Since the 2016 election, teaching Andrew Delbanco’s The Real American Dream and Catherine L. Albanese’s A Republic of Mind and Spirit has become more relevant and constructive, as this religious studies professor has come to view the rise of the spiritual but not religious as a story of hope.
For many people, Andrew Delbanco is the definition of a public intellectual. With a combination of deep learning, eloquence, and a deft, original way of considering our national history and literature, he documents the human mise-en-scène in a way that matters today.
Andrew Delbanco became President of The Teagle Foundation on July 1, 2018, and has served on its Board of Directors since 2009. Since 1985, he has taught at Columbia University, where he is the Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies.
