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Name
  
John Dizikes


Role
  
Professor

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Awards
  
National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism

Books
  
Opera in America, Yankee Doodle Dandy: T, Sportsmen and gamesmen, Britain - Roosevelt - and the N

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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.

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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." He also has an interest in thoroughbred horse racing, and in 2000 wrote a biography of Hall of Fame jockey Tod Sloan.

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

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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. 

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