Mary P. Ryan is an American
historian
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, and John Martin Vincent Professor of History at the
Johns Hopkins University
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in
Baltimore, Maryland
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. She is also Margaret Byrne Professor Emeritus of History,
University of California, Berkeley
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.
Life
She graduated from the
University of Wisconsin–Madison
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, and from
University of California, Santa Barbara
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with a
PhD.
She taught at
Pitzer College
Pitzer College is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. One of the Claremont Colleges, the college has a curricular emphasis on the social sciences, behavioral sciences, international programs, and media studies. Pitzer is k ...
,
Binghamton University
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,
University of California, Irvine
The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and p ...
.
Awards
* 1982
Bancroft Prize
The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas.
It was established in 1948, with a bequest from Frederic Bancroft, in his memory and that of his brother, ...
* 1990
Guggenheim Fellowship
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Works
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*"A Laudable Pride in the Whole of Us": City Halls as Civic Materialism" American Historical Review, October 2000.
"The Election Mess", ''The New York Review of Books'', February 8, 2001*
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Editor
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References
External links
Johns Hopkins faculty pageUC Berkeley faculty page
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
University of California, Santa Barbara alumni
Pitzer College faculty
Binghamton University faculty
University of California, Irvine faculty
University of California, Berkeley faculty
Living people
21st-century American historians
Johns Hopkins University faculty
American women historians
21st-century American women writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Bancroft Prize winners
Historians from California
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