Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

Award-winning historian at the University of Illinois-Chicago, Schultz teaches twentieth-century American history with special interests in religion, ethno-racial history, and American intellectual and cultural life. Her most recent book, the winner of the Robert F. Lucid Award from the Norman Mailer Society, examines the fascinatingly intertwined lives of right-wing firebrand William F. Buckley, Jr. and left-wing radical Norman Mailer as a way to better understand the 1960s. Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship That Shaped the 1960s (W.W. Norton & Co.) came out in June 2015, was an Amazon.com #1 New Release in US History, and was reviewed widely, including in The New Yorker, Esquire, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, the New York Review of Books Blog, the Times of London, National Review, and more.