- Robert Zaller
Robert Zaller (born 1940 in
Brooklyn ,New York ) is an American author, playwright, professor of history atDrexel 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 OfficerDaniel 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 ofMOVE 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 byLila Bita , including
*1998 - "The Scorpion and Other Stories" (Pella, 1998) ISBN 091861869X
*2005 - "Sister of Darkness" (Somerset Hall Press, 2005) ISBN 0972466185Honors
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 theRoyal 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 theRobinson Jeffers Association (1997-2000).References
External links
* [http://www.drexel.edu/coas/histpol/zaller.asp Drexel University Faculty profile]
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