About The Provost
David I. Kertzer joined the Brown faculty in 1992 as the Paul Dupee Jr. University Professor of Social Science. He is professor of anthropology and Italian studies and served as chair of the Department of Anthropology. He developed and directed the Anthropological Demography program at Brown and was founding director of the Politics, Culture, and Identity research program of the Watson Institute for International Studies. A Brown alumnus (A.B., 1969) and a Brown parent, Kertzer received a Ph.D. in anthropology from Brandeis University in 1974. He was William R. Kenan Jr. Professor at Bowdoin College from 1989 to 1992. He twice won the Marraro Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies for the best book in Italian history, and co-founded and for eleven years co-edited the Journal of Modern Italian Studies. |
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Provost Kertzer is currently President of the Social Science History Association. His book The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1997. His many books have been translated into over a dozen languages.
Provost Kertzer's many honors include a Guggenheim fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, two Fulbright fellowships, many National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health research awards, a fellowship year at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavior Sciences, Stanford, and a residency at the American Academy of Rome . In 2005 he was elected to be a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Updated: February 2007
