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Nancy G. Isenberg is an American historian, and T. Harry Williams Professor of history at
Louisiana State University Louisiana State University (officially Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as LSU) is a public land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The university was founded in 1860 near ...
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Life

She graduated from
Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and wa ...
, and
University of Wisconsin A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which ...
. Isenberg is jewish.


Awards

* 1999, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) book prize for ''Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America'' * 2003, First Union International Fellowship, International Center for Jefferson Studies * 2003-2004 and 2007–2008, Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society * 2008, Award for best non-fiction book for ''Fallen Founder'', Oklahoma Center for the Book * 2008, Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography * 2016, shared with Lyra Monteiro, Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award, Before Columbus Foundation * 2016, #4 on Politico Magazine's Annual List of the “50 Most important Thinkers” * 2017, LSU Distinguished Research Master Award * 2017, Finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, Columbia School of Journalism and Nieman Foundation at Harvard University * 2017, PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for ''White Trash''


Works

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* * Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American historians Historians of the United States Rutgers University alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni University of Tulsa faculty Louisiana State University faculty American Book Award winners {{US-historian-stub