Morton Keller

Morton Keller was an American historian, academic and author. He specialized in the history of American legal and political institutions.

Biography

Keller was born on March 1, 1929, in Brooklyn, New York. He was the son of Jacob Keller and Anita Keller. Keller married Phyllis Daytz on September 7, 1951. He died in 2018.

Education

Keller completed his BA degree at the University of Rochester in 1950. He completed his MA and PhD at Harvard University in 1952 and 1956 respectively.

Career

Keller served in the US Navy and then took up an academic career as a historian. He served as the Spector Professor of History Emeritus at Brandeis University. Keller served as the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at the University of Oxford in 1980. He had previously taught at the University of North Carolina and the University of Pennsylvania and was a visiting professor at Harvard, Sussex, and Oxford Universities respectively.

Awards and honours

Keller received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1959-1960. He received the Littleton-Griswold Prize in American Legal History in 1995.