Pauline Maier
Historian, Author
1938 – 2013
Who was Pauline Maier?
Pauline Alice Maier was a historian of the American Revolution, though her work also addressed the late colonial period and the history of the United States after the end of the Revolutionary War. She was the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Maier achieved prominence over a fifty-year career of critically acclaimed scholarly histories and journal articles. She was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and taught undergraduates. She authored textbooks and online courses. Her popular career included series with PBS and the History Channel. She appeared on Charlie Rose, C-SPAN2's In Depth and wrote 20 years for The New York Times review pages. Maier was the 2011 President of the Society of American Historians. She won the 2011 George Washington Book Prize for her book Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788. She died in 2013 from lung cancer at the age of 75.
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- Born
- Apr 27, 1938
Saint Paul - Also known as
- Pauline Alice Maier
- Spouses
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Radcliffe College
- London School of Economics and Political Science
- PhD, Harvard University
History
( - 1968)
- Employment
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Lived in
- Massachusetts
(1978 - 2013/08/12)
- Massachusetts
- Died
- Aug 12, 2013
Cambridge
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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