About David Oshinsky
Born 1944. David Oshinsky is an American writer, historian and academic.
David M. Oshinsky (born 1944) is an American historian, director of the Division of Medical Humanities at the NYU School of Medicine, and a professor in the Department of History at New York University.
Early life and education Oshinsky graduated from Cornell University in 1965 and obtained his PhD from Brandeis University in 1971.
Career
Oshinsky won the annual Pulitzer Prize in History for his 2005 book, Polio: An American Story. His other books include the D.B. Hardeman Prize-winning A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy, and the Robert Kennedy Prize-winning "Worse Than Slavery": Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice. His articles and reviews appear regularly in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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American historian and academic
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