Alexander Keyssar

Alexander Keyssar
Keyssar in 2020
Born (1947-05-13) May 13, 1947 (age 77)
NationalityAmerican
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]

Life

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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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  • Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?. Harvard University Press. 2020. ISBN 978-0-674-66015-1.
  • The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States. Basic Books. 2001. ISBN 978-0-465-02969-3. Alexander Keyssar. (2000) revised 2009
  • Inventing America: A History of the United States. W.W. Norton. 2003. ISBN 978-0-393-97435-5.
  • Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts. Cambridge University Press. 1986. ISBN 978-0-521-29767-7. Alexander Keyssar.
  • Melville's Israel Potter: reflections on the American dream. Harvard University Press. 1969. ISBN 978-0-674-56475-6. Alexander Keyssar.
  • "The Electoral College Flunks", The New York Review of Books, Volume 52, Number 5 · March 24, 2005
  • Keyssar, Alexander (October 17, 2004). "Peculiar institution". The Boston Globe.

Anthologies

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Co-author

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References

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  1. ^ date & year of birth according to LCNAF CIP data
  2. ^ "Harvard Kennedy School - Alex Keyssar". www.hks.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 2008-04-20.
  3. ^ "Alexander Keyssar | Berkman Klein Center". 24 March 2020.
  4. ^ "Fulbright Specialist Program Stories: Alexander Keyssar". Archived from the original on 2011-03-17. Retrieved 2009-11-17.
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