Steven Mintz
Affiliated Faculty
Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin and a leading scholar of families, children, and the life course. His work spans the history of private life, slavery, antebellum reform, immigration, film, and the history of emotions and sensibilities. He has also been a major figure in digital history and higher education, creating the widely used Digital History website and writing frequently about the future of higher education and the value of the humanities.
An award-winning educator and nationally recognized leader in pedagogy, Mintz has directed Columbia University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Teaching Center and led the University of Texas System’s Institute for Transformational Learning. He has also played a leading role in history education, serving on the Texas task force to revise the state’s K–12 social studies curriculum and chairing the American Historical Association’s Committee on Digital Instruction. Before joining the University of Texas faculty, he taught at Columbia University, Oberlin College, Pepperdine University, the University of Houston, and Universität Siegen, and he has been a visiting scholar and fellow at Harvard and Stanford. His public-facing work on teaching, curriculum reform, and liberal education was recognized with the 2025 Association of American Colleges and Universities President’s Award.
Publications
The American Child: The Transformation of Childhood Since World War II
The Learning-Centered University: Making College a More Developmental, Transformational, and Equitable Experience
Domestic Revolutions
Huck’s Raft
