Pauline Maier
| Pauline Maier | |
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Pauline Maier receiving GW book prize, 2011
See also, You teach history at MIT? |
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| Born |
Pauline Alice Rubbelke April 27, 1938 St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Died | August 12, 2013 (aged 75) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
Radcliffe College (B.A.) London School of Economics Harvard University (Ph.D.) |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Spouse(s) | Charles S. Maier |
Pauline Alice Maier (née Rubbelke; April 27, 1938 – August 12, 2013) was a revisionist historian of the American Revolution, though her work also addressed the late colonial period and the history of the United States after the end of the Revolutionary War. She was the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Maier achieved prominence over a fifty-year career of critically acclaimed scholarly histories and journal articles. She was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and taught undergraduates. She authored textbooks and online courses. Her popular career included series with PBS and the History Channel. She appeared on Charlie Rose, C-SPAN2's In Depth and wrote 20 years for The New York Times review pages. Maier was the 2011 President of the Society of American Historians. She won the 2011 George Washington Book Prize for her book Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788. She died in 2013 from lung cancer at the age of 75.
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1938 as Pauline Rubbelke, she attended parochial schools. Her father was a firefighter and her mother was a homemaker with five children. On entering Radcliffe College as an undergraduate, her original ambition was to be in the newspaper business.
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