Mark a kishlansky biography of barack

American historian

Mark Kishlansky (October 11, – May 19, ) was an American historian of seventeenth-century British politics. He was the Frank Baird, Jr.

Professor of History at Harvard University.^[1]

Education and academic career

Kishlansky was born in Brooklyn. He completed his undergraduate degree at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in He proceeded to graduate study under David Underdown at Brown University, receiving his M.A.

in and his PhD in His PhD thesis was titled "The Emergence of Radical Politics in the English Revolution".^[2] From to he taught at the University of Chicago, successively as instructor and professor. From to he was a member of the Committee on Social Thought.

He was a visiting professor at Northwestern University in and was the Mellon Visiting Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology in – In he became a professor at Harvard University^[3]