David M. Oshinsky (born 1944) is an American historian. He is the director of the Division of Medical Humanities at NYU School of Medicine[1] and a professor in the Department of History at New York University.[2]
David Oshinsky
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| Born | 1944 (age 79–80) |
| Occupation | Historian, academic |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Cornell (1965) Brandeis University (1971) |
| Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize 2006 |
Oshinsky graduated from Cornell in 1965 and obtained his PhD from Brandeis University in 1971. He won the annual Pulitzer Prize in History for his 2005 book, Polio: An American Story.[3] Oshinsky’s most recent book, Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital, was published in 2016.[4] His other books include the D.B. Hardeman Prize-winning A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy, and the Robert Kennedy Prize-winning "Worse Than Slavery": Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice. His articles and reviews appear regularly in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.[5] He previously held the Jack S. Blanton chair in history at the University of Texas at Austin[5]and prior to that he was a professor of history at Rutgers University New Brunswick.
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