Morton Keller

Morton Keller was the Spector Professor of History Emeritus at Brandeis University. He previously taught at the University of North Carolina and the University of Pennsylvania and was a visiting professor at Harvard, Sussex, and Oxford, where he was the Harmsworth Professor of American History. Professor Keller’s scholarly work focused on legal history, especially the period of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. His publications included The Life Insurance Enterprise, 1885-1910 (1963); The Art and Politics of Thomas Nast (1968); Affairs of State: Public Life in Late Nineteenth Century America (1977), Regulating a New Economy (1990); Regulating a New Society (1994); Making Harvard Modern (with Phyllis Keller) (2001); and America’s Three Regimes (2007). Keller received many awards and fellowships, including: a Guggenheim Fellowship (1959-1960); SSRC Research Award (1959-1960); ACLS Fellowship (1967-1968); Charles Warren Center Fellowship (1967-1968); NEH Senior Fellowship (1974-1975); honorary degree from Oxford (1980); NEH Constitutional Fellowship (1986-1987); a major grant from the Spencer Foundation (1955-1998); and the Littleton-Griswold Prize in American Legal History (1995).