Alexander Keyssar

Alexander Keyssar (born May 13, 1947) 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.

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.

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

Works

(2000) revised 2009

"The Electoral College Flunks", The New York Review of Books, Volume 52, Number 5 · March 24, 2005

Anthologies

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