Steven Hahn received his Ph.D from Yale University and is a specialist on social and political history, slavery and race, American empire, and the international history of emancipation struggles. He has taught at the University of Delaware; the University of California, San Diego; Northwestern University; and the University of Pennsylvania, and is currently Professor of History at New York University where he also teaches in the NYU Prison Education Program. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Huntington Library, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. Among his awards for writing are the Pulitzer Prize for History, the Bancroft Prize, the Merle Curti Prize, the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize, and the Allan Nevins Prize.
