Beverly Gage
American history professor at Yale
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Beverly Gage is an American historian who is a professor of history and American studies at Yale University, where she was the director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy. She won a Pulitzer Prize for her 2022 book G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, and also wrote The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror in 2009.[1][2] In 2021, Gage was nominated to the National Council on the Humanities, and she was formerly a National Fellow for the Jefferson Scholars Foundation.[3]
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Beverly Gage | |
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Gage speaking at the Naval War College in 2019 | |
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Education and career
Gage attended Yale College as an undergraduate, graduating in 1994 with a degree in American studies, then earned her Ph.D. in history at Columbia University in 2004.[4]
In September 2021, she announced that she would resign as director of the Grand Strategy program, effective December 2021, citing concerns about academic freedom and a "board of visitors" that was formed at the behest of Yale donors Charles B. Johnson and Nicholas F. Brady to oversee her work.[5] In an interview with The New York Times, she stated, "It's very difficult to teach effectively or creatively in a situation where you are being second-guessed and undermined and not protected." On October 1, 2021, the Yale history department issued a statement in support of her.[6]
Her 2022 biography of J. Edgar Hoover, G-Man, received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Biography,[7] the 2023 Bancroft Prize and Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History.[8] It was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography.[9]
