Alexander Keyssar

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Alexander Keyssar
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Keyssar in 2020
Born (1947-05-13) May 13, 1947 (age 79)
EducationHarvard College
Harvard University (PhD)
Occupations
  • Historian
  • professor
AwardsFrederick Jackson Turner Award (1987)

Alexander Keyssar (born May 13, 1947)[1] is an American historian and the Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.[2]

Alex graduated summa cum laude with a degree in English Literature from Harvard College in 1969. In 1977 he graduated from Harvard University with a PhD in the History of American Civilization. He taught at Brandeis University, Duke University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[3]

Awards

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  • 1987 Frederick Jackson Turner Award; Philip Taft Labor History Prize for Out of Work
  • 2001 Beveridge Prize for The Right to Vote; Eugene Genovese Prize for The Right to Vote
  • 2001 Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States
  • 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist for The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States
  • 2001 Parkman Prize, Finalist
  • 2005 Fulbright Specialists University of Lisbon[4]

Works

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  • "The Electoral College Flunks", The New York Review of Books, Volume 52, Number 5 · March 24, 2005
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Anthologies

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Co-author

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  • Inventing America, a text integrating the history of technology and science into the mainstream of American history
  • Comparative and International Working-Class History. In 2004/5

References

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