Alexander Keyssar
Keyssar in 2020
Born	(1947-05-13) May 13, 1947 (age 79)
Education	Harvard College Harvard University (PhD)
Occupations	Historian professor
Awards	Frederick 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

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

• 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

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

References

External links

• Appearances on C-SPAN