Beverly Gage

This article is about the historian. For the politician, see Beverly A. Gage.
Beverly Gage
Gage speaking at the Naval War College in 2019
Gage speaking at the Naval War College in 2019
TitleMember of the National Council on the Humanities

Beverly Gage is an American academic who is a professor of history and American studies at Yale University. She was the director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale. She won a Pulitzer Prize for her 2022 book G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, and also wrote The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror in 2009.[1][2] In 2021, Gage was nominated to the National Council on the Humanities, and she was formerly a National Fellow for the Jefferson Scholars Foundation.[3]

Education and career

Gage attended Yale as an undergraduate, graduating in 1994 with a degree in American studies, then earned her PhD in history at Columbia University in 2004.[4]

In September 2021, she announced that she would resign as director of the Grand Strategy program, effective December 2021, citing concerns about academic freedom and a "board of visitors" that was formed to oversee her work.[5] In an interview with The New York Times, she stated, "It's very difficult to teach effectively or creatively in a situation where you are being second-guessed and undermined and not protected." On October 1, 2021, the Yale history department issued a statement in support of her.[6]

Her 2022 biography of J. Edgar Hoover, G-Man, received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Biography,[7] the 2023 Bancroft Prize and Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History.[8] It was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography.[9]

References

  1. ^ Reviews for "The Day Wall Street Exploded":
  2. ^ Bird, Kai (November 9, 2022). "A biography that may change your mind about J. Edgar Hoover". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 25, 2022.
  3. ^ Gonzalez, Susan (April 30, 2021). "Historian Beverly Gage nominated to National Council on the Humanities". YaleNews. Archived from the original on September 30, 2021. Retrieved September 1, 2021.
  4. ^ "Beverly Gage". Department of History. Yale University. Archived from the original on February 24, 2013. Retrieved September 30, 2021.
  5. ^ Schuessler, Jennifer (September 30, 2021). "Leader of Prestigious Yale Program Resigns, Citing Donor Pressure". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on November 5, 2021. Retrieved September 30, 2021.
  6. ^ "Statement from the Department of History". history.yale.edu. Archived from the original on October 7, 2021. Retrieved October 7, 2021.
  7. ^ Khatib, Joumana; Alter, Alexandra; Harris, Elizabeth A. (May 8, 2023). "Pulitzer Prizes 2023: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
  8. ^ Schuessler, Jennifer (March 23, 2023). "Hoover Biographer Wins American History Book Prize". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
  9. ^ Varno, David (February 1, 2023). "NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES FINALISTS FOR PUBLISHING YEAR 2022". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved February 3, 2023.


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