Steven Hahn

Steven Hahn (* 1951 ) is an American historian. His research focuses on 19th century history, the history of the southern states, and African American history.

Life

Hahn studied at the University of Rochester , where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1973 . He then studied history at Yale University . There he received a Master of Arts in 1975 , a Master of Philosophy in 1976 and a Ph.D. in 1979. For his dissertation The Roots of Southern Populism , he received the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians in 1980 .

After completing his doctorate , Hahn taught Assistant Professor at the University of Delaware from September 1979 to June 1981 . He then moved to the University of California, San Diego , where he taught from July 1981 to June 1983 as Assistant Professor, from July 1983 to June 1987 as Associate Professor and from July 1987 to June 1998 as Professor. From July 1998 to June 2003 he was a professor at Northwestern University . From July 2003 to June 2016 he held the Chair of Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor in American History at the University of Pennsylvania held. Hahn has been a professor at New York University since July 2016 .

In the spring of 1986 Hahn was an Invited Visiting Professor at the Istituto di Studi Storici of the University of Milan . In 1993 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of American Historians . In 2006 he was Lawrence Stone Visiting Professor at Princeton University . In 2007 he was Nathan I. Huggins Lecturer at Harvard University . From 2016 to 2017 he is Rogers Distinguished Fellow in Nineteenth Century History at the Huntington Library .

His book The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890 won the Organization of American Historians' Frederick Jackson Turner Award in 1984 . His book A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration , won the 2004 Bancroft Prize of Columbia University , the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Merle Curti Award of the Organization of American Historians in the Social History category .

Publications (selection)

• Steven Hahn: The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890 (1983, Oxford University Press)
• Steven Hahn, Jonathan Prude [Eds.]: The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation: Essays in the Social History of Rural America (1985, University of North Carolina Press)
• Steven Hahn, Steven F. Miller, Susan O'Donovan, John Rodrigue, Leslie S. Rowland [Eds.]: Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867. (2008, Series III: Land and Labor in 1865, University of North Carolina Press)
• Steven Hahn: A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration (2003, Harvard University Press)
• Steven Hahn: The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom: The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures (2009, Harvard University Press)
• Steven Hahn: A Nation without Borders: The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910 (2016)

Web links

• Biography on the website of the Department of History at New York University

Individual evidence

1. ^ Merle Curti Award Winners , Organization of American Historians website