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Dr. Robert Dallek

Robert Dallek is a prominent American historian specializing in American Presidents. He is a Professor of History at Boston University and has previously taught at Columbia University, UCLA and Oxford. He has won the Bancroft Prize and numerous other awards for scholarship and teaching.

He attended the University of Illinois, graduating with a B.A. in history in June 1955. He then spent several years at Columbia University gaining an M.A. in history in February 1957, before finishing his Ph.D in June 1964. While studying for his Ph.D he also taught classes as an Instructor of History at Columbia until 1964.

From 1964 until 1994 he was an Assistant to Full Professor of History at UCLA. By the year 1966 however he became a Graduate Advisor in the department of History at UCLA and served in that position for two years. From 1972 to 1974 he served as Vice Chairman of the Department of History at UCLA. For a time he was at the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute as Research Associate, from 1981-1985. In 1993 he was a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology and from 1994 to 1995 he was the Harmsworth Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford. In 1995 he was awarded an honorary M.A. by Oxford University for his work there. Since 1996 he has been a Visiting Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas. From 1996 he was a Professor of History at Boston University.