Sean Wilentz

Sean Wilentz
Born	Robert Sean Wilentz (1951-02-20) February 20, 1951 (age 73) New York City, New York, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Columbia University (BA) Balliol College, Oxford (BA) Yale University (MA, PhD)
Occupation(s)	Historian, academic, professor, writer
Awards	Bancroft 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 nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has written numerous award-winning books and articles including, most notably, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, which was awarded the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.