Sean Wilentz

Sean Wilentz
Wilentz in January 2019
Born
Robert Sean Wilentz

(1951-02-20) February 20, 1951 (age 74)
New York City, New York, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materColumbia University (BA)
Balliol College, Oxford (BA)
Yale University (MA, PhD)
Occupation(s)Historian, academic, professor, writer
AwardsBancroft Prize (2006), Pulitzer Prize finalist (2006), Albert J. Beveridge Award (1984)

Robert Sean Wilentz (/wɪˈlɛnts/; born February 20, 1951) is an American historian who serves as the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1979.[1] His primary research interests include U.S. social and political history in the 19th and 20th centuries. He has written several award-winning books and articles, including The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, which was awarded the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History.

  1. ^ "Wilentz webpage at Princeton University, Department of History". Princeton.edu. Retrieved June 23, 2016.

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