Alexander Keyssar (born May 13, 1947) is an American

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

and the Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

Life

Alex graduated summa cum laude with a degree in English Literature from Harvard College in 1969. In 1977 he graduated from

with a PhD in the History of American Civilization. He taught at

Brandeis University , mottoeng = "Truth even unto its innermost parts" , established = , type = Private research university , accreditation = NECHE , president = Ronald D. Liebowitz , ...

, Duke University, and

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

Awards

* 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 The University of Lisbon (ULisboa; pt, Universidade de Lisboa, ) is a public research university in Lisbon, and the largest university in Portugal. It was founded in 2013, from the merger of two previous public universities located in Lisbon, th ...

Works

* * (2000) revised 2009 * * *
"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

* * ''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

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Keyssar, Alexander 20th-century American historians 20th-century American male writers Harvard University alumni Brandeis University faculty Duke University faculty Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty Harvard Kennedy School faculty Living people 1947 births American male non-fiction writers