Alexander Keyssar

Alex graduated summa cum laude with a degree in English Literature from Harvard College in 1969. In 1977 he graduated from Harvard University with a PhD in the History of American Civilization. He taught at Brandeis University, Duke University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ==Awards==

• 1987 Frederick Jackson Turner Award; Philip Taft Labor History Prize for Out of Work • 2001 Beveridge Prize for The Right to Vote; Eugene Genovese Prize for The Right to Vote • 2001 Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States • 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist for The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States • 2001 Parkman Prize, Finalist • 2005 Fulbright Specialists University of Lisbon ==Works==

• • (2000) revised 2009 • • • • "The Electoral College Flunks", The New York Review of Books, Volume 52, Number 5 · March 24, 2005 • Anthologies • • Co-author • • Inventing America, a text integrating the history of technology and science into the mainstream of American history • Comparative and International Working-Class History. In 2004/5 ==References==