Gordon Wood
Professor Emeritus of History:
History
Phone: +1 401 863 2820
Phone 2: +1 401 863 2131
Gordon_Wood@Brown.EDU
My book, Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different, will be published in May 2006. I am currently completing a volume in the Oxford History of the United States dealing with the period of the early Republic, 1789-1815.
Biography
Gordon S. Wood is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University. He received his B.A. degree from Tufts University and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He taught at Harvard University and the University of Michigan before joining the faculty at Brown in 1969. He is the author of the Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 (1969), which won the Bancroft Prize and the John H. Dunning Prize in 1970, and The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992), which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize in 1993. The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin (2004) was awarded the Julia Ward Howe Prize by the Boston Authors Club in 2005. Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different was published in 2006. The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History was published in 2008. His book in the Oxford History of the United States, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 will be published in October 2009. Professor Wood reviews in the New York Review of Books and The New Republc. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
Interests
My book, Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different, will be published in May 2006. I am currently completing a volume in the Oxford History of the United States dealing with the period of the early Republic, 1789-1815.
Awards
Prizes and Awards
De Lancey K. Jay Prize, Harvard University, 1963-64.
Toppan Prize, Harvard University, 1964.
John H. Dunning Prize, American Historical Association, 1970.
Nominee for National Book Award in History and Biography, 1970.
Bancroft Prize, Columbia University, 1970.
Distinguished Visitor Award of the Australian-American Education Foundation, 1976.
Kerr Prize for best article in New York History, awarded by New York Historical Society, 1981.
Daughters of Colonial Wars award for the outstanding article in the William and Mary Quarterly, 1983.
Douglass Adair Award, 1984.
Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award, 1992.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of Phi Beta Kappa, 1992.
Pulitzer Prize in History, 1993.
Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame, 2000.
Doctor of Letters, LaTrobe University, Australia, 2001.
Julia Ward Howe Prize from the Boston Authors Club, 2005
Teaching
History of the Early Republic, Sping 2006
American Colonial History-Spring 2007
American Revolution-Spring 2008