Carol Berkin | |
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Born | |
Awards | Bancroft Dissertation Award |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Barnard College Columbia University |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | American colonial history;Women's history |
Institutions | Baruch College Graduate Center of the City University of New York |
Carol Ruth Berkin (born October 1,1942) [1] is an American historian and author specializing in women's role in American colonial history. [2]
She was born in Mobile,Alabama. She is divorced with two children. [3] She graduated from Barnard College in 1964 and holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University.
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. [4]
She has worked as a historical commentator for several television documentaries,most notably PBS's Dolley Madison:America’s First Lady. [5]
Berkin has received the Bancroft Dissertation Award from the Bancroft Foundation. [3] [6] and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. [3]
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