Hayden White

Hayden White
Born
Hayden V. White

(1928-07-12)July 12, 1928
DiedMarch 5, 2018(2018-03-05) (aged 89)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
Influences
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Doctoral studentsNancy Struever
Notable studentsLawrence Grossberg
Main interestsMetahistory
Notable worksMetahistory (1973)
Notable ideas
Influenced

Hayden V. White (July 12, 1928 – March 5, 2018) was an American historian in the tradition of literary criticism, perhaps most famous for his work Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe (1973/2014).