Robert Zaller

Robert Zaller

Robert Zaller (born 1940 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American author, playwright, professor of history at Drexel University, and an abolitionist for the death penalty.

Position on Death Penalty

Zaller is a strong supporter of Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted for the murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner. [cite web|url=http://www.emajonline.com/index.php?action=4&content_id=17|last=Zaller | first=Robert | title=A Case for Freeing Mumia Abu-Jamal | work=Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal| date=2005 | accessdate=2008-07-02] He also supports the members of MOVE who murdered Philadelphia Police Officer James Ramp. [cite web| url=http://www.domelights.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t19874.html | title=Sign The Petition To Keep MOVE Cop-Killers In Jail" | work=Domelights Central | date=2008-04-07 | accessdate=2008-07-02]

Bibliography

AUTHOR
*1983 - "The Cliffs of Solitude: A Reading of Robinson Jeffers" (Cambridge University Press, 1983) ISBN 0521254744
*1984 - "Europe in Transition" (Harper and Row, 1984) ISBN 0060473681
* 2006 - Islands: Poems (Somerset Hall Press, 2006) ISBN 0977461025
*2007 - "The Discourse of Legitimacy in Early Modern England" (Stanford University Press, 2007). ISBN 0804755043COAUTHOR
*1990 - "He has coauthored Civilizations of the World: The Human Adventure" (Harper and Row, 1990) ISBN 0673980049
*1992 - "Civilizations of the West: The Human Adventure" (Harper Collins, 1992) EDITOR
*1991 - "Centennial Essays for Robinson Jeffers" (University of Delaware Press/ Associated University Presses, 1991) ISBN 0874134145COEDITOR
*1982-1984 with Richard L. Greaves, "The Biographical Dictionary of British Radicals in the Seventeenth Century", 3 vols. (Harvester Press, 1982, 1983, 1984).ISBN 0855271337 (vol 1), ISBN 071080430X (vol 2), ISBN 0710804865 (vol 3)TRANSLATIONS Numerous books by Lila Bita, including
*1998 - "The Scorpion and Other Stories" (Pella, 1998) ISBN 091861869X
*2005 - "Sister of Darkness" (Somerset Hall Press, 2005) ISBN 0972466185

Honors

His honors include the Phi Alpha Theta Prize (1972) and the Tor House Foundation Award (1984). He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1985-86, [cite web|url=http://www.gf.org/zfellow.html|title=Fellows whose last names begin with Z|work=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|accessdate=2008-07-06] and is an elected fellow of the Royal Historical Society (1991). [cite web|url=http://www.royalhistoricalsociety.org/rhsfellows.htm|title=Fellows of the Royal Historical Society |work=Royal Historical Society|accessdate=2008-07-06] He was chair of the Faculty Senate of the University of Miami from 1982 to 1985, and was President of the Robinson Jeffers Association (1997-2000).

References

External links

* [http://www.drexel.edu/coas/histpol/zaller.asp Drexel University Faculty profile]


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