Professor
David I. Kertzer
Brown University
Anthropologist; Historian; Educator
Area
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specialty
Anthropology and Archaeology
Elected
2005
An anthropologist and historian known for his work on political symbolism, politics and religion, anthropological demography, and modern Italian history. The Dupee University Professor of Social Science at Brown University, he served as provost of Brown from 2006 to 2011. Among his many books are the 1997 National Book Award finalist, The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, and The Pope and Mussolini, winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. His most recent book, The Pope Who Would Be King (2018) tells the story of the Roman Revolution of 1848.
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