Thomas August Kohut, PhD, was born on March 11, 1950 in Chicago where he grew up as an only child. As a youngster he attended the innovative Lab School of the University of Chicago. He later took his bachelors degree from Oberlin College in 1972 and his masters and doctoral degrees from the University of Minnesota in 1975 and 1983. He practiced psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in Cincinnati from 1981-84, and in 1984 graduated from the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute where he became a faculty member. In addition, he was Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati from 1982-84. In 1984, Kohut began his career teaching European history at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts where, in 1995, he assumed the position of Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III Professor of History. In 2000 he became Dean of Faculty and in 2003 served for one semester as Acting Provost.
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