David M. Oshinsky (born 1944) is an American historian, director of the Division of Medical Humanities at the NYU School of Medicine,[1] and a professor in the Department of History at New York University.[2]

Early life and education

Oshinsky graduated from Cornell University in 1965 and obtained his PhD from Brandeis University in 1971.

Career

Oshinsky (right) and Dell Medical School dean Clay Johnston (left) at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum at the University of Texas at Austin in 2016

Oshinsky won the annual Pulitzer Prize in History for his 2005 book, Polio: An American Story.[3] Oshinsky’s most recent book, Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital, was published in 2016.[4] His other books include the D.B. Hardeman Prize-winning A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy, and the Robert Kennedy Prize-winning "Worse Than Slavery": Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice. His articles and reviews appear regularly in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.[5] He previously held the Jack S. Blanton chair in history at the University of Texas at Austin[5]and prior to that he was a professor of history at Rutgers University New Brunswick.

Bibliography

Books

  • Oshinsky, David M. (1976). Senator Joseph McCarthy and the American Labor Movement. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 0-8262-0188-1.
  • Oshinsky, David M. (1983). A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy. New York: The Free Press. ISBN 0-02-923490-5.
  • Oshinsky, David M.; Horn, Daniel; McCormic, Richard Patrick (1989). The Case of the Nazi Professor. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-1427-4.
  • Oshinsky, David M. (1997). "Worse Than Slavery": Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow. Free Press. ISBN 0-684-83095-7.
  • Ayers, Edward L.; Gould. Lewis L.; Oshinsky, David M.; Soderlund, Jean R. (1999). American Passages: A History of the American People, Volume I. Wadsworth Publishing Company. ISBN 0-03-072573-9.
  • Ayers, Edward L.; Gould. Lewis L.; Oshinsky, David M.; Soderlund, Jean R. (1999). American Passages: A History of the American People, Volume II. Wadsworth Publishing Company. ISBN 0-03-072574-7.
  • Oshinsky, David M. (2005). Polio: An American Story. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 0-19-515294-8.
  • Oshinsky, David M. (2005) [1983]. A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515424-X.
  • Oshinsky, David M. (2010). Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America.
  • Oshinsky, David M. (2016). Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0385523363.

Selected articles

See also

References

  1. ^ "David M. Oshinsky, PhD". NYU School of Medicine. Retrieved July 5, 2017.
  2. ^ Oshinsky, David M. (July 13, 2008). "bio line in review of Democracy's Keeper". The New York Times Book Review. Retrieved 2010-05-01.
  3. ^ "History". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-25. With short biography and dustjacket description.
  4. ^ Oshinsky, David M. (1944). Bellevue : three centuries of medicine and mayhem at America's most storied hospital (First ed.). New York. ISBN 9780385523363. OCLC 951830070.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ^ a b "David M. Oshinsky". Department of History. University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 2013-11-25. With Curriculum Vitae.
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