Alexander Keyssar

Professor Keyssar received his PhD in the History of American Civilization at Harvard and has also taught at Brandeis University, Duke University, and MIT. His 1986 book, Out of Work: the First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts, was awarded several scholarly prizes, including the Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians; it was also named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. In 2000, he published The Right to Vote: the Contested History of Democracy in the United States, which received the Beveridge Prize from the American Historical Association and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the LA Times Book Award, and the Francis Parkman Prize. He is a co-author of Inventing America: A History of the United States and has written widely on public policy issues in the popular press.