Professor of History
Office: 207 Parkhurst Hall
Office Phone: (603) 646-2223
Email: James.E.Wright@Dartmouth.edu
James Wright, currently serving as President of the College, is a native midwesterner, earning his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, and has been at Dartmouth since 1969. His teaching interests have included the second half of the U.S. survey and the political history of the United States. Wright has written two books on political reform movements in the United States, one dealing with the Populist period and the other focusing on the Progressive era. He also has written on the American West.
