Curriculum Vita
Richard L. Rapson
PERSONAL
INFORMATION
Birthdate:
Birthplace:
Address (home):
Address (work):
Department of History, University of
Married: To Dr. Elaine Hatfield, Prof. of
Psychology,
EDUCATION
Undergraduate Work:
B.A.,
Graduate Work:
Major
field: American Social and Intellectual History
Minor
fields: Modern European History and American Literature
Ph.D.
awarded 1966
Dissertation:
"The British Traveler in
ACADEMIC
EXPERIENCE
Professor of History, University of Hawaii,
1972-present
Visiting Professor of History and Director of the
Core Program,
Visiting Professor of History,
Visiting Professor of History, Stanford
University, 1973-1974
Founder and Director, New College, University of
Hawaii, 1970-1973
Visiting Professor of History,
Associate Professor of History, University of
Hawaii, 1968-1972
Director, Humanities Programs, University of
Hawaii, 1968-1970
TV Moderator (1969), PBS, alternating with Abraham
Kaplan, Professor of Philosophy,
Assistant Professor of History, University of
Hawaii, 1966-1968
Assistant Professor of History,
Faculty Resident, Stanford University, 1962-1965
Instructor of History, Stanford University,
1961-1965
Instructor of American Studies, Amherst College,
1960-1961
HONORS,
FELLOWSHIPS
Undergraduate:
Phi
Beta Kappa; magna cum laude; Bond Fifteen (top 15 academically for four years);
Bond Prize, four-year scholarship
Graduate:
Woodrow
Wilson Fellowship, 1958-1959
Amherst-Columbia
Fellowship, 1959-1960 (first recipient)
Edward
J. Perkins Scholarship, 1960-1961
Post-graduate:
Danforth Teacher's Grant, 1964-1965
Danforth Associate, 1967-present
SSRC
Resarch-Travel Grant (
National
Finalist, Danforth Foundation's E. Harris Harbison Award for Gifted Teaching, 1972
Outstanding
Teacher Award,
Headliner
Award: Hnl Professional Chapter of Women in
Communication, 1995
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS
Individualism
and Conformity in the American Character, ed.
(D.C.
Heath, 1967)
Britons
View
(University
of Washington Press, 1971)
The Cult
of Youth in Middle-Class
General Editor of The Literature of History series
(Appleton-Century-Crofts), [now
First four volumes of which:
Stuart
Gerry Brown,ed., Revolution, Confederation and
Constitution (1971)
I.A.
Newby, ed., The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1850-1877 (1971)
Otis L.
Graham, Jr., ed., From
Richard
L. Rapson, ed., Major Interpretations of
the American Past (1971)
American
Life and Thought Since 1880: A Guided Study Course
(University of Hawaii, Hawaii Open Programs, 1976)
The
Pursuit of Meaning:
Denials
of Doubt: An Interpretation of American History
(University Press of America, 1978)
Fairly
Lucky You Live
American Yearnings:
Love, Money, and Endless Possibility (UPA: New York and London, 1988)
Magical Thinking and the Decline of America (Xlibris/Random
House:
CO-AUTHORED
BOOKS with Elaine Hatfield
Love,
Sex, and Intimacy: Their Psychology, Biology, and History.
Emotional
Contagion:
Love and
Sex: Cross-Cultural Perspectives.
Fiction: Rosie. SterlingHouse:
Recovered Memories. XLibris/Random
House:
2002.
Deadly Wager. XLibris/Random House:
Vengeance
Is Mine. XLibris/Random House:
PUBLICATIONS:
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
"The American Child as Seen
by British Travelers, 1845-1935," American
Quarterly (Fall 1965). Also reprinted in Michael McGiffert,
ed.,The Character of Americans (Dorsey: Rev.
ed., 1970), and several other anthologies.
"British Tourists in the
"The Religious Feelings of the American
People," Church History (September
1966)
Final chapter in Alan Hodge, ed., Varieties of Travel (Oliver
Boyd, 1967)
"The Past and Future of Universities," Kapa (Fall 1968)
"The Making of a College," Soundings (Spring 1971)
"Shared Beliefs in Pluralistic
"The Story of New College" in Robert
Potter and Robert Kamins, eds., The History of the University of Hawaii (University of Hawaii
Press: Honolulu, sched. 1995)
Collaborations
with Elaine Hatfield
"Gender Differences in Love and Intimacy: the
Fantasy vs. the Reality," in W. Ricketts and H. Gochros
(Eds.) (eds.), Social Work and Love (Hayworth Press: New York, 1985)
"Passionate Love: New Directions in
Research," in W. Jones and D. Perlman (eds.), Advances in Personal Relationships Vol.
I (JAI Press: Greenwich, CN, 1987),
pp. 109-139.
"Passionate Love/ Sexual Desire: Can the Same Paradigm
Explain Both?”, Archives of Sexual
Behavior, 16 (1987), pp. 259-278.
"Passionate Love: Its Beginnings," Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality, 1 (1988)
"The Mature Years" in R. Burnett, ed., Intimacy (
"Emotions in Intimate Relations," in
A.M. Isen and B. Moore (eds.), Affect and Social Behavior (Cambridge, England: Cambridge
University Press, 1990)
"Emotions: A Trinity" in E.A. Bleckman & M.J. McEnroe, eds,
Emotions in the Family (Lawrence
Erlbaum: New York, 1990).
"Emotional Contagion"
in Review of Personality and Social
Psychology, 14, 1992.
"Love and Attachment Processes" in The Handbook of Emotions, 1992.
"Similarity and Attraction
in Close Relationships," Chatauqua Series on
Attitude Similarity, Communication
Monographs, 1992.
"Emotional Contagion,"
Directions in Psychological Sciences,
1992.
"Historical and cross-cultural perspectives on passionate
love. In K. T. Strongman (Ed.), International Review
of Emotion Vol. 3. John Wiley & Sons, 1993.
"Historical and cross-cultural perspectives on passionate love
and sexual desire. Annual Review of Sex
Research, 4, 67-98, 1993.
"Love and Intimacy" in V.S. Ramachandran,
ed., Encyclopedia of Human Behavior.
Hatfield, E., & Rapson, R.
L. (l993). Love and attachment processes. In M. Lewis & J. M. Haviland
(Eds.), Handbook
of emotions (pp. 595-604).
Hatfield, E., Cacioppo, J. L. & Rapson, R. L. (1993). Emotional contagion. Current
Directions in Psychological Sciences, 2, 96-99.
Hatfield, E., & Rapson, R.
L. (1993). Historical and
cross-cultural perspectives on passionate love. In K. T. Strongman (Ed.), International Review of Emotion Vol. 3. John Wiley & Sons.
Hatfield, E., & Rapson, R.
L. (1993). Historical and
cross-cultural perspectives on passionate love and sexual desire. Annual
Review of Sex Research, 4, 67-98.
Hatfield, E., & Rapson, R.
L. (1994). Love and intimacy. In V. S. Ramachandran
(Ed.), Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, 3, (pp. 1145-1149).
Hatfield, E., & Rapson, R.
L. (1994). Love and intimacy. Encyclopedia of Mental Health, 2,
(pp. 583-592.)
Hatfield, E., & Rapson, R. L. (1996). Stress and passionate love. In C. D. Spielberger
&
Hatfield, E., & Rapson, R.
L. (1998). Emotional contagion and the
communication of emotion. In M.
T. Palmer & G. A. Barnett (Ed.), Progress
in Communication Sciences, Vol. 14, 73-89.
Hatfield,
E. & Rapson, R. L. (January, 2000). The future. Popular Mechanics
Hatfield, E., & Rapson, R. L. (2000). Love and attachment processes. In M. Lewis & J. M. Haviland-Jones
(Eds.), Handbook of emotions, Second edition.
(pp. 654-662).
Hatfield, E. & Rapson, R. L. (2000). Love. In W. E. Craighead & C.
B. Nemeroff (Eds.). The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavorial Science.
Hatfield, E. & Rapson, R. L. (2000). Emotional contagion. In W. E. Craighead & C.
B. Nemeroff (Eds.). The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavorial Science.
Hatfield, E. & Rapson, R. L. (2000). Physical attractiveness. In W. E. Craighead & C.
B. Nemeroff (Eds.). The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavorial Science. Vol. 3.
Hatfield, E., & Rapson,
R. L. (2000). Amor Pasional
y Deseo Sexual:
Perspectivas Históricas
y Trans-Culturales.
Journal Mexicano de Psicologia Social and
Revista de Psicología
Social y Personalidad.
Hatfield, E. & Rapson,
R. L. (2001). In Fabio Bacchini
and Chiara Lalli (Eds.) Anthology of Theoretical Essays on Love.
Hatfield, E., & Rapson, R. L. (2002). Passionate love and sexual desire:
Cross-cultural and historical perspectives.
In H. Reis, M. A. Fitzpatrick, and A. Vangelisti. Stability and Change in Relationship Behavior
Across the Lifespan.
Hatfield, E. & Rapson,
R. L. (in press). Attractiveness. In Craighead, W. E. and Nemeroff, C.
(Eds.) Concise Encyclopedia of Psychology
and Neuroscience.
Hatfield, E. & Rapson, R. L. (in press) Love. In Craighead, W. E. and Nemeroff, C.
(Eds.) Concise Encyclopedia of Psychology
and Neuroscience.
Hatfield,
E. & Rapson, R. L. (in press).
Emotional contagion. In Craighead, W. E. and Nemeroff, C. (Eds.) Concise
Encyclopedia of Psychology and Neuroscience.
Hatfield,
E. & Rapson, R. L. (in press).
Emotional contagion: The outbreak of terrorism and hate around the
world. In C. W. Leach
& L. Tiedens, The
social life of emotions.
RECENT CONFERENCES
2000
American Historical Association
(
SSSS Western Region
(April 5-10:
(June 21-24:
(August 14-18:
Renaissance Weekend
(August 27-
VIII Mexican Congress of Social Psychology
1st Mexican Congress of Personal Relationships
(
2001
Western Psychological Association
(
The Association for the Treatment of Sexual
Abusers
ATSA 20th Annual Research and Treatment
Presentation
(
2002
(February 11-16:
Society for the Scientific Study of Sex—Western
Region
(April 3-8,
The IXth International
Social Justice Conference
2003
July 3-July 20
Town Meeting: Love and Sex
American Psychological Association
LISTINGS
Who's Who in
in the West, Men of Achievement, Community Leaders
and Noteworthy Americans, The International Authors and Writers Who's Who,
Notable Americans, Personalities of the West, Personalities of America, 2000
Outstanding Scholars of the 20th Century, Outstanding People of the 20th
Century, 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 20th Century, 2000
Outstanding Writers of the 20th Century, et. al.
LECTURES
AND PAPERS SINCE 1991
American Psychological Ass'n
August 16-20 “Emotional Contagion”
American Psychological
Association
Forest Institute,
6th
Internatl Congress on Personal Relationships
Society
for the Scientific Study of Sex
Women's
Conference on Health
UH
Medical School
American
Psychological Assn,
Invited
Address: “Cultural Confrontations With Passionate Love
and Sex”
APA,
Western
Psychological Assn, Kona
Center for Biographical Research
Historical Perspectives.”
Psychology
Department,
American Psychological Association
American Psychological Association
“Psychological
History: New Findings”
“Emotional
Contagion”
For Research on Emotions. “The History of
Emotions:
The Newest Research.”
“The 21st Century Marriage.”
Renaissance
Weekend
VIII Congresso Mexicano de Psicologia Social
I
Congresso Mexicano de Relaciones Personnales
Western Psychological Association
“Modern
War and Personal Lives” and “Terrorism
and Personal Lives”
The
Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers
ATSA 20th Annual Research and
Treatment Presentation
February 6, 20, 2002 “Love, Sex, and Marriage: Now and
Then, Here and There.”
The National League of American Pen Women (NLAPW)
March, 2002 “Personal
Lives in 16th Century
FRAUHM
(UH Faculty Retirees Association UHM)
The IXth International
Social Justice Conference
American
Psychological Association
RECENT
TELEVISION, RADIO, FILM APPEARANCES (NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ONLY)
July, 2002 Appeared in two films
(“The European Front” and “The Home Front”
for History Channel’s
Three-part series on
“Sex and World War II.”
June, 2003 Appeared on two Discovery Channel
films,
“Sex vs. Love:
Changes Through History”
October 2003 BBC Radio 4, “Emotions: Biological or
Cultural?”
PROFESSIONAL
AND CIVIC ACTIVITIES
Regional Membership Chairman, Organization of
American Historians,1971-1974
President,
Member,
Principle Humanities Scholar, Hawaiian Reparations
and Trust Responsibility Project (NEH), 1978
Academic Advisory Council, Institute for Shipboard
Education, 1977-present
Admissions Advisors Council, Amherst College,
1978-present
Advisory Board (History Editor), University Press
of America, 1978-present
National Council for History Education, Member
1995-present
Renaissance Weekend, Feb. 1997. Society (which includes some Presidents of the
International Advisory Council of the Toda
Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research, 2000-Present.
Honorary Member: International Society for
Research on Emotions, 2000-Present
Department Committees Since
1994:
1994-1995
Task
Force on Planning
Task
Force on Curriculum
Burns
Chair Committee
1995-1996
Personnel
Cmte (elected)
Search
Cmte--French History
World
Civ Study Cmte
Joint
Cmte on Planning and Undergraduate Program and
Curriculum
Burns
Chair Committee
1996-1997
Search
Cmte--US History
Burns
Chair Cmte
1997-1998
Personnel
Cmte (elected)
Space
Cmte
Burns
Chair Cmte
1998-1999
Personnel
Cmte (elected)
Space
Cmte
Burns
Chair Cmte
Arts
& Sciences Special Cmte on the Philosophy and
1999-2000
Co-Chair, Search Committee for U.S. Foreign
Relations position
Personnel
Cmte (elected)
Space
Cmte
Burns
Chair Cmte
Arts
& Sciences Special Cmte on the Philosophy and
2000-2001
Personnel
Cmte (elected)
Space
Cmte
Burns
Chair Cmte
2001-2002
Personnel
Cmte (elected)
Co-Chair,
Search Cmte Colonial Americas position
Co-Chair,
Workload Cmte
2002-2003
Personnel
Cmte (elected)
2003-2004
Personnel
Cmte (elected)
UH
Manoa Library Committee