A professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, Mintz is a leading authority on families and the life course, a pedagogical innovator, and commentator on the arts, the human condition, and the history and future of higher education. The prizewinning author and editor of 17 books, he directed the UT System’s Institute for Transformational Learning, and taught at Columbia, Oberlin, Pepperdine, the University of Houston, and Universität Siegen. Past president of H-Net and the Society for the History of Children and Youth, he chaired the Council on Contemporary Families, and was a fellow and visiting scholar at Stanford and Harvard. In 2025, he received the AAC&U’s President’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to Liberal Education.
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