About

DEAN GRODZINS is a historian, author, and editor. He has published widely on American history, including the prize-winning biography _American Heretic: Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism_ (UNC, 2002). With Prof. David A. Moss of Harvard and others, he has co-written seven case studies on the history of American democracy that are used in high school history and civics classes across the United States, and which were published in Moss, _Democracy: A Case Study_ (Harvard: Belknap, 2017). He received a Ph.D. from Harvard and has served as a lecturer on history and literature at Harvard, a Senior Researcher at the Harvard Business School, and Associate Professor of History at Meadville Lombard Theological School. He has delivered many public lectures on American history and has extensive experience as an academic editor. He also drew a comic strip for twenty years. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife and daughter.

Other Works

Awards and Recognition

  • Alan Nevins Prize