Gordon S. Wood | |
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Wood in 2006
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Born | Gordon Stewart Wood November 27, 1933 Concord, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Fields | History |
Institutions |
College of William and Mary Harvard University University of Michigan Brown University Cambridge University Northwestern University School of Law |
Alma mater |
Harvard University Tufts University |
Doctoral advisor | Bernard Bailyn |
Notable awards |
Pulitzer Prize (1993) Bancroft Prize (1970) National Humanities Medal (2010) |
Gordon Stewart Wood (born November 27, 1933 in Concord, Massachusetts) is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University, and the recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992). His book The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 (1969) won a 1970 Bancroft Prize. In 2010 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal.
Wood was born in Concord, Massachusetts, and grew up in Worcester and Waltham. He graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University in 1955 and has served as a trustee there. After serving in the U.S. Air Force in Japan, during which time he earned an A.M. at Harvard University, he entered the Ph.D. program in history at Harvard, where he studied under Bernard Bailyn, receiving his Ph.D. in 1964.
Wood has taught at Harvard, the College of William and Mary, the University of Michigan, Brown University, Cambridge University (Pitt Professor), and in 1982–83 he lectured for One Day University.