The Society for U. S. Intellectual History (S-USIH) is pleased to announce its first recipient of the annual Leo Ribuffo Dissertation Prize. This first prize goes to Jonathan Strassfeld for his dissertation titled, “Phenomenology and American Philosophy.” Strassfeld completed his work at the University of Rochester under the supervision of Robert Westbrook. The Prize Committee’s vote was unanimous. Here is the Committee’s statement on Strassfeld’s accomplishment: “Conventional wisdom has it that analytical philosophy emerged as hegemonic in postwar America because its highly technical language and positivist methodologies meshed well with a Cold War political culture committed to the notion that Read more