Major problems in the Early Republic 1787-1848

Biographie de Sean Wilentz

Sean Wilentz, professor of history at Princeton University, was born in Manhattan and raised in Brooklyn. In 1972 he graduated from Columbia College and then studied modern history at Balliol College, Oxford, where he earned a B.A. in 1974. He completed his graduate studies at Yale University and received his Ph.D. in 1980. His book Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 (1984) won several national honors, including the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association and the Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians. In addition, he has edited Rites of Power: Symbolism, Ritual, and Politics Since the Middle Ages (1985). His study of William Manning, co-authored with Michael Merrill, will appear in 1992. He is currently at work on a book about the Prophet Matthias and his cult (with Paul E. Johnson) and on a longer study of the rise of American democracy. Wilentz has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. His essays and reviews appear regularly in scholarly journals and anthologies, as well as in The New Republic, Dissent, and other national publications. He and his family, the historian Christine Stansell and their two children, reside in Princeton.