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American historian
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1958
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Rutgers University
University of Wisconsin–Madison
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Introduction

Nancy G. Isenberg is an American historian, and T. Harry Williams Professor of history at Louisiana State University.

Life

She graduated fromRutgers University, and University of Wisconsin.

Awards

  • 1999, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) book prize for Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America
  • 2003, First Union International Fellowship, International Center for Jefferson Studies
  • 2003-2004 and 2007-2008, Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society
  • 2008, Award for best non-fiction book for Fallen Founder, Oklahoma Center for the Book
  • 2008, Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography
  • 2016, shared with Lyra Monteiro, Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award, Before Columbus Foundation
  • 2016, #4 on Politico Magazine’s Annual List of the “50 Most important Thinkers”
  • 2017, LSU Distinguished Research Master Award
  • 2017, Finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, Columbia School of Journalism and Nieman Foundation at Harvard University
  • 2017, PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for White Trash

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