John Dizikes

John Dizikes Ph.D. (born 1932) is a Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who served as Cowell College provost and who is a recipient of the UCSC Alumni Association's Distinguished Teaching Award.^[1]

Dizikes is the author of numerous articles and four books, and won the 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award for "Opera in America: A Cultural History."^[2] He also has an interest in thoroughbred horse racing, and in 2000 wrote a biography of Hall of Fame jockey Tod Sloan.^[3]

An award bearing his name is presented each year to deserving faculty in the UCSC humanities department.

Books

• Yankee Doodle Dandy : The Life and Times of Tod Sloan. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-300-08334-7. OCLC 44046818.
• Opera in America : A Cultural History. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-300-05496-5. OCLC 26974819.
• Sportsmen and Gamesmen: From the Years that Shaped American Ideas About Winning and Losing and How to Play the Game. Boston [Mass.]: Houghton Mifflin. 1981. ISBN 978-0-395-27776-8. OCLC 6421815.
• Britain, Roosevelt, and the New Deal: British Opinion, 1932-1938. New York: Garland Pub. 1978. ISBN 978-0-8240-3631-7. OCLC 4834677.

References

1. "John Dizikes to give Emeriti Faculty Lecture", Currents (UC Santa Cruz), Vol. 10 (No. 16), 2005-12-05, retrieved 2010-11-10
2. "Book Award Winners Focus On Black Life and the Blues". The News York Times. 1994-02-14. Retrieved 2010-11-10. "Opera in America: A Cultural History" (Yale University Press), by John Dizikes, was awarded the [National Book Critics Circle] criticism prize.
3. Yardley, Jonathan (2000-12-07). "Small in the Saddle". The Washington Post. p. C.02. Retrieved 2010-11-10.

External links

• Photographs of John Dizikes from the UC Santa Cruz Library's Digital Collections