Gary gerstle biography
Gary Gerstle
American historian and academic (born )
Gary GerstleFBA (born ) is an American historian and the Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College.
Early life and education
Gerstle received his BA from Brown University in and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in
Academic career
Gerstle taught at Catholic University of America and Princeton University, before moving to the University of Maryland, where he was Director of the Center for Historical Studies (–) and Chair of the Department of History (–). He joined the Department of History faculty at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee in In the / academic year, he was the Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at the University of Oxford.[1] As of December , he is Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge.[2][3]
He is one of the United States' leading historians of race, citizenship, and American nationhood.[4] A historian of the twentieth-century United States, he is particularly interested in three major areas of inquiry: 1) immigration, race, and nationality; 2) the significance of class in social and political life; and 3) social movements, popular politics, and the state. Gerstle is the author, co-author, or co-editor of six books and the author of more than thirty articles on these topics.[5]
He has served as the Annenberg Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and as a visiting professor at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (École des hautes études en sciences sociales aka EHESS) in Paris. In addition to France, he has lectured throughout the United States and in Canada, England, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Brazil, Japan, and South Africa. Gerstle has also lectured widely to the general public, and is often consulted by newspaper reporters, magazine writers, and television producers on matters pertinent to his areas of historical expertise. In May , Gerstle testified on questions of immigration before the Immigration Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill.[5]
He also co-edits a book series, Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America, which has published more than thirty books, many of them prizewinners.[6] He has served on the editorial board of the Journal of American History and the Board of Editors of the American Historical Review. He is a member of the Editorial Board for Past & Present.[7]
Honors
His book, American Crucible, received the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award for outstanding book on US immigration and ethnic history,[8] and was named by NPR book critic, Maureen Corrigan, one of 's Best Books for a Transformative New Year.[9] He has received numerous fellowships, including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and a Membership at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
He was elected to the Society of American Historians in ,[10] and named a Distinguished Lecturer of the Organization of American Historians in In July , he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[11]
Books
Solely authored works
Co-authored and co-edited works
- Fraser, Steve; Gerstle, Gary (). The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, –. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN&#;. OCLC&#;
- Gerstle, Gary; Mollenkopf, John H. (). E Pluribus Unum?: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. ISBN&#;. OCLC&#;
- Fraser, Steve; Gerstle, Gary (). Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ISBN&#;. OCLC&#;
- Murrin, John; Hämäläinen, Pekka J.; Johnson, Paul E.; McPherson, James M.; Fahs, Alice; Gerstle, Gary; Rosenberg, Emily S.; Rosenberg, Norman L. (). Liberty, Equality, and Power: A History of the American People (7th&#;ed.). Boston: Cengage Learning. ISBN&#;. OCLC&#;