Carol Ruth Berkin (born October 1, 1942) is an American historian and author specializing in women's role in American colonial history.

Biography

She was born in

Mobile, Alabama Mobile ( , ) is a city and the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States. The population within the city limits was 187,041 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, down from 195,111 at the 2010 United States census, 2010 cens ...

. She is divorced with two children. She graduated from

Barnard College Barnard College of Columbia University is a private women's liberal arts college in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a group of women led by young student activist Annie Nathan Meyer, who petitioned Columbia ...

in 1964 and holds a Ph.D. from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

. She taught at

Baruch College Baruch College (officially the Bernard M. Baruch College) is a public college in New York City. It is a constituent college of the City University of New York system. Named for financier and statesman Bernard M. Baruch, the college operates und ...

from 1972 to 2008 and has taught at the

Graduate Center of the City University of New York The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York (CUNY Graduate Center) is a public research institution and post-graduate university in New York City. Serving as the principal doctorate-granting institution of the ...

since 1983. She is currently Baruch Presidential Professor of History at the

City University of New York The City University of New York ( CUNY; , ) is the Public university, public university system of Education in New York City, New York City. It is the largest urban university system in the United States, comprising 25 campuses: eleven Upper divis ...

. She has worked as a historical commentator for several television documentaries, most notably PBS's ''Dolley Madison: America’s First Lady''.

Awards

Berkin has received the Bancroft Dissertation Award from the Bancroft Foundation. and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Selected works

* * * * * * * ''Wondrous Beauty'' was reviewed in the New York Times. *''A Sovereign People: The Crises of the 1790s and the Birth of American Nationalism'' (2017)

References

External links

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IMDB.com entry
* 1942 births American women historians Barnard College alumni Columbia University alumni Writers from Mobile, Alabama Living people 21st-century American historians 21st-century American women writers {{US-historian-stub