Alan Brinkley

Alan Brinkley is the Allan Nevins Professor of History and has taught at Columbia University since 1991. He works and teaches in the field of twentieth-century American history. He was chair of the history department from 2000-2003 and is currently University Provost.

His published works include Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression (1982), which won the 1983 National Book Award; The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People (Knopf, 1992 and subsequent editions); The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (Knopf, 1995); and Liberalism and Its Discontents (Harvard, 1998). He is presently writing a biography of Henry R. Luce.

Professor Brinkley was the recipient of the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize at Harvard in 1987 and the Great Teacher Award at Columbia in 2003. He is chairman of the board of trustees of the Century Foundation (formerly the Twentieth Century Fund), a member of the editorial board of the American Prospect, a member of the board of directors of the New York Council for the Humanities, a trustee of the National Humanities Center, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1998-99, he was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University.

He received his B.A. from Princeton in 1971 and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1979.