Robert Dallek (born May 16, 1934) is an American historian specializing in American Presidents. He is a recently retired Professor of History at Boston University and has previously taught at Columbia University, UCLA, and Oxford. He has won the Bancroft Prize and numerous other awards for scholarship and teaching.
He attended the University of Illinois, graduating with a B.A. in history in June 1955. He then spent several years at Columbia Unive...
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Robert Dallek (born May 16, 1934) is an American historian specializing in American Presidents. He is a recently retired Professor of History at Boston University and has previously taught at Columbia University, UCLA, and Oxford. He has won the Bancroft Prize and numerous other awards for scholarship and teaching.
He attended the University of Illinois, graduating with a B.A. in history in June 1955. He then spent several years at Columbia University, earning an M.A. in February 1957, and a Ph.D. in June 1964. While working on his Ph.D., he taught classes as an Instructor of History at Columbia until 1964.
From 1964 until 1994 he advanced from Assistant to Full Professor of History at UCLA. By 1966, he was a Graduate Advisor in the department of History at UCLA and served in that position for two years. From 1972 to 1974, he served as Vice Chair of the UCLA Department of History. From 1981-1985, he was a Research Associate at the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute. In 1993,...
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