Carol Ruth Berkin (born October 1, 1942) is an American historian and author specializing in women's role in American colonial history.
Biography
She was born in
Mobile, Alabama
Mobile ( , ) is a city and the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States. The population was 187,041 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. After a successful vote to annex areas west of the city limits in July 2023, Mobil ...
. She is divorced with two children.
She graduated from
Barnard College
Barnard College is a Private college, private Women's colleges in the United States, women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college affiliated with Columbia University in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a grou ...
in 1964 and holds a Ph.D. from
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...
.
She taught at
Baruch College from 1972 to 2008 and has taught at the
Graduate Center of the City University of New York since 1983. She is currently Baruch Presidential Professor of History at the
City University of New York.
She has worked as a historical commentator for several television documentaries, most notably PBS's ''Dolley Madison: America’s First Lady''.
Awards
Berkin has received the Bancroft Dissertation Award from the Bancroft Foundation.
and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Selected works
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* ''Wondrous Beauty'' was reviewed in the New York Times.
*''A Sovereign People: The Crises of the 1790s and the Birth of American Nationalism'' (2017)
References
External links
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IMDB.com entry*
1942 births
American women historians
Barnard College alumni
Columbia University alumni
Writers from Mobile, Alabama
Living people
21st-century American historians
21st-century American women writers
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