Perez Zagorin

Perez Zagorin (May 20, 1920- ) is a world-renowned historian specializing in 16th and 17th century English/British history and political thought, early modern European history, and related areas in literature and philosophy. In 1990 following a lengthy tenure, he was named the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Rochester, New York.

Since 1982, Zagorin has been a research Fellow of the Edgar F. Shannon Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. He holds or has held fellowships at several other distinguished institutions, including the Folger Shakespeare Library, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation [http://www.gf.org online] , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, [i.e., Princeton Township, New Jersey; not affiliated with Princeton University.] and the Royal Historical Society of Great Britain.

Early life and career

Zagorin was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1920 of Solomon Novitz and Mildred Ginsburg Zagorin. He married the famed artist Honoré Desmond Sharrer on May 29, 1947. They have one son, Adam Zagorin who currently works for Time Magazine and has two sons of his own.

Zagorin's B.A. was from the University of Chicago; he earned both his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1947 and 1952 respectively. He revised his dissertation to become his first major publication, the now highly acclaimed "A History of Political Thought in the English Revolution". [London: Routledge & Paul, 1954.] At Harvard, Zagorin was a student of Wilbur Kitchener Jordan.

He taught at Amherst College 1947-1949, at Vassar College 1951-1953, and reached the rank of Professor at McGill University, Montreal, while teaching there 1955-1965. He then joined the faculty at the University of Rochester, New York, chaired the History Department 1967-1969, and reached Emeritus status in 1990.

References

*much of the information for this article was assembled from two main sources: "Who's Who in America" (Chicago: A.N. Marquis, 2006); and the [http://www.gale.com/servlet/ItemDetailServlet?region=9&imprint=000&titleCode=DAS&type=3&id=115154 "Directory of American Scholars"] (Lancaster, Pa.: Science Press, 2002), 599.

Monographs

*"A History of Political Thought in the English Revolution" (1954)
*"The Court and the Country: the Beginning of the English Revolution" (1969)
*"Culture and politics from Puritanism to the Enlightenment" (1980) editor
*"Rebels and Rulers 1500-1600: v.1 Society, States, and Early Modern Revolution: Agrarian and Urban Rebellions" (1982)
*"Rebels and Rulers 1500-1600: v.2 Provincial rebellion: Revolutionary Civil Wars, 1560-1660" (1982)
*"Ways of lying : dissimulation, persecution, and conformity in early modern Europe" (1990)
*"Milton : aristocrat & rebel : the poet and his politics" (1992)
*"Philosophy, Science, and Religion in England 1640-1700" (1992) co-editor
*"The English Revolution: politics, events, ideas" (1998)
*"Francis Bacon" (1999)
*"How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West" (2003)
*"Thucydides: An Introduction for the Common Reader" (2005)
* [honorificus] "Court, country, and culture : essays on early modern British history in honor of Perez Zagorin" (1992)