Zuckerman, Michael, 1939-....

Michael Zuckerman was born in Philadelphia in 1939. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in 1961 and obtained his Ph. D. in the History of American Civilization from Harvard University in 1967. He started teaching history at Penn in 1965 and was promoted to Assistant Professor in 1967, Associated Professor in 1970, and Professor in 1984. His research interests have focused on American social history and colonial American history. His major publications include Peaceable Kingdoms: New England Towns in the Eighteenth Century (1970), Friends and Neighbors: Group Life in America's First Plural Society (1982), After the Revolution: the Smithsonian History of Everyday Life in the Eighteenth Century (co-authored with Barbara Clark Smith in 1985), and Almost Chosen People: Oblique Biographies in the American Grain (1993). In addition he has published dozens of articles and book reviews.

Zuckerman has won numerous awards and honors including a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in 1961, a Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in 1964, three awards in 1972 (a Social Science Research Council Faculty Research Fellowship, a Senior Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Lindback Award for teaching from Penn), and Guggenheim Fellowship (declined) and Fulbright Fellowship in 1977. In the spring of 1984, following the lead of Richard R. Beeman, he assumed the directorship of a major history research project for a comprehensive study of the "Transformation of Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley, 1750-1850." The project was supported by enormous grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities from 1983 to 1991 and engaged a large group of researchers from both this country and overseas.

From the description of Papers, 1960-1995. (University of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 145429749