Elizabeth Kopelman Borgwardt (born 1965) is an American

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 species; as well as the ...

, and

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. She is an associate professor at

Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) is a private research university in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1853 by a group of civic leaders and named for George Washington, the university spans 355 acres across its Danforth ...

Life

She graduated from

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with a BA and M.Phil., from

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, with a J.D., and from

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

with a Ph.D. She worked as a mediator and arbitrator, and was a senior fellow at the Center for Conflict and Negotiation at

. She also worked on the

Michael Dukakis Michael Stanley Dukakis ( ; born November 3, 1933) is an American politician and lawyer who served as governor of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1979 and from 1983 to 1991. He is the longest-serving governor in Massachusetts history and only the s ...

1988 presidential campaign. On June 26, 1993, she married Kurt Borgwardt. She is an associate professor of history and law ''in

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''.

Fellowships

* Spring 2012

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, Richard and Ann Pozen Professor of Human Rights (Visiting) * 2010 Visiting Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University * 2009 Fulbright Visiting Professor, University of Heidelberg, Center for American Studies * Spring 2008, Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer,

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, Center for American Studies * 2004-2012 Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians * 2003-2004 Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law & Society,

University of California at Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkele ...

* 2001-2002 Samuel Golieb Fellow in Legal History,

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* 1999 Stuart L. Bernath Dissertation Research Grant * 1998 Ford Foundation "Human Rights" Fellow

Awards and honors

* 2010 James E. McCleod Faculty Appreciation Award, Washington University in St. Louis * November 2010 Distinguished Graduate Award, Noble & Greenough School * 2009 Stuart L. Bernath Lecture Prize, Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations * 2008 Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Outstanding Book Award * 2006 Murle Curti Book Award, the Organization of American Historians * 2006 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize (co-winner), the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations * 2006 Best Book Award, Any Historical Topic,

Phi Alpha Theta Phi Alpha Theta () is an American honor society for undergraduate and graduate students and professors of history. It was created in 1921 at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It has more than 400,000 members, with new member ...

History Honor Society * 2006

Merle Curti Award The Merle Curti Award is awarded annually by the Organization of American Historians for the best book in American social and/or American intellectual history. It is named in honor of Merle Curti (1897–1996). A committee of 5 members of the Organ ...

* 2006 Robert F. Kennedy Foundation Book Award Finalist * 2006 Gustavus Myers Center Outstanding Book Award, Honorable Mention, for ''A New Deal for the World'' * 2006 Nominee, Pulitzer Prize in History, for ''A New Deal for the World'' * 2004 Elizabeth Spilman Rosenfield Dissertation Prize,

Department of History * 1998 Littleton-Griswold Dissertation Research Award for Legal History, American Historical Association

Works

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References

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