Kennedy, David M.

David M. Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and professor, has taught at Stanford University since 1967 and was named the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History in 1993. His many books include the 1971 Bancroft prize-winning Birth Control in America; 1981 Pulitzer Prize finalist Over Here: The First World War and American Society, and Freedom From Fear, which won the Pulitzer Prize in history in 2000.

The Seattle native earned a B.A. in history in 1963 from Stanford University, then continued his studies at Yale, where he was awarded a master's degree and doctorate in American Studies. In 1967, Kennedy returned to Stanford, where he has taught since, with the exception of two visiting professorships at the University of Florence and at Oxford University.

Kennedy has been the U.S. delegate to Oxford University Press since 1997, and was a U.S. International Communications Agency Lecturer in Italy, Denmark, Finland,Turkey, Ireland and Germany. In the States, Kennedy has served on the boards of many organizations, including the Educational Testing Service's Test Development Committee for Advanced Placement Examination in U.S. History as well as the advisory boards of several PBS television series, including "The American Experience."

Among his many honors, Kennedy was named a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Guggenheim Foundation and was selected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

His writings have appeared in numerous publications including The Historian, Reviews in American History, Encyclopedia of American Biography, the Dictionary of American Biography, as well as others including The Nation, The New Republic, The London Review of Books, The Atlantic Monthly, The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times.

Kennedy served as a Pulitzer Prize juror in the history category in 1984, 1994 and 2002. He was elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board in 2002.