Daniel Horowitz is the Mary Huggins Gamble Professor of American Studies emeritus at Smith College. He graduated from Yale in 1960, magna cum laude in American studies, and later earned a doctorate in history at Harvard. From 1966 until he retired from teaching in 2012, he taught American studies and U.S. history, mostly at women's colleges, often with his wife, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, who holds a PhD in the History of American Civilization from Harvard.Horowitz's work has focused on the history of consumer culture and social criticism in the United States during the twentieth century. Among his publications are The Morality of Spending: Attitudes toward the Consumer Society in America, 1875-1940 (1985); Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism (1998); The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979 (2004), winner of the Eugene M. Kayden Prize for the best book published in the humanities in 2004 by a university press; and Consuming Pleasures: Intellectuals and Popular Culture in the Postwar World (2012).He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities; the National Humanities Center; the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College, Harvard; and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 2003 the American Studies Association awarded him its Mary C. Turpie Prize for "outstanding abilities and achievement in American Studies teaching, advising, and program development at the local or regional level."Dan and Helen live in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Their daughter, Sarah, is an associate professor of history at Washington and Lee University. Their son, Ben, is a software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area.