Morton Keller

Keller was born on March 1, 1929, in Brooklyn, New York.^[2] He was the son of Jacob Keller and Anita Keller.^[2] Keller married Phyllis Daytz on September 7, 1951.^[2] He died in 2018.^[2]

Keller completed his BA degree at the University of Rochester in 1950.^[3] He completed his MA and PhD at Harvard University in 1952 and 1956 respectively.^[3]

Keller served in the US Navy and then took up an academic career as a historian.^[4] He served as the Spector Professor of History Emeritus at Brandeis University.^[5] Keller served as the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at the University of Oxford in 1980.^[6] He had previously taught at the University of North Carolina and the University of Pennsylvania and was a visiting professor at Harvard, Sussex, and Oxford Universities respectively.^[5]

Keller received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1959-1960.^[5] He received the Littleton-Griswold Prize in American Legal History in 1995.^[5]

Keller is the author of a number of notable books:^[5][7]

• Making Harvard modern : the rise of America's university
• Obama's time : a history
• Affairs of State : public life in late nineteenth century America
• America's three regimes : a new political history