Stanley Mayer Burstein is a

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

whose writings primarily concern the

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. He is Professor Emeritus of history at

California State University, Los Angeles California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA) is a public university in Los Angeles, California. It is part of the 23-campus California State University (CSU) system. Cal State LA offers 142 bachelor's degrees, 122 master's degrees, ...

, and the former Chair of the Department of History. He also served as secretary-treasurer and president of the

Association of Ancient Historians The Association of Ancient Historians (AAH) is the oldest and largest academic organization in the US for scholars of the history of the Ancient Mediterranean World. HISTORY The Association of Ancient Historians had its origins in 1969, when a num ...

Life

Stanley Mayer Burstein was born on September 16, 1941 in

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. He married in 1966 and had two children. He received a PhD from the

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. He wrote many textbooks which are used by Common Core including ''The World from 1000 BCE to 300 CE'' and ''A Brief History of Ancient Greece, International Edition: Politics, Society, and Culture''.

Awards

Burstein was awarded the California State University, Los Angeles Outstanding Professor Award (1993) and President's Distinguished Professor Award (1997) along with the 2004 Wang Family Excellence Award.CSULA Emeriti Faculty Biography – Stanley M. Burstein
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References

21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers University of California, Los Angeles alumni California State University, Los Angeles faculty 1941 births Living people American male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub