Faculty

Oshinsky, David M.
Professor
Jack S. Blanton Chair in History

Office: GAR 3.504
Office Hours: Spring 2008: TBA
Phone:512-475-7230
oshinsky@mail.utexas.edu

Education: PhD, 1971, Brandeis University

Courses taught:
Professor Oshinsky specializes in 20th Century U.S. political and cultural history.

Geographic Area(s) of Study: United States

Awards/Honors:
Pulitzer Prize winner announced April 17, 2006
Pulitzer Prize winner 2006 in the History category for his recently published book, Polio: An American Story, (Oxford University Press, 2005)

Recent Publications:
His books include Polio: An American Story, which has just won the Pulitzer Prize "for a distinguished book on the history of the United States." A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy, which won the Hardeman Prize as the best book about the U.S. Congress, and Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice, which won the Robert Kennedy Prize for its contribution to human rights. He is a co-author of American Passages: A History of the United States, and a co-editor of The Oxford Companion to United States History. His articles and reviews appear regularly in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Chronicle of Higher Education.