Background
Dawson, Philip was born on November 28, 1928 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Son of John Philip and Emma Van Nostrand (McDonald) Dawson.
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Philip Dawson
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Bachelor, University of Michigan, 1950; Master of Arts, University of Michigan, 1951; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1961.
Career
Reporter, The Washington Post, 1953-1955;
teaching fellow in history, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1957-1959, 60-61;
instructor history, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1961-1964;
assistant professor of history, Stanford (California) U., 1964-1970;
associate professor of history, Stanford (California) U., 1970-1973;
professor of history, Brooklyn College CUNY, 1973-1978. Author: Provincial Magistrates and Revolutionary Politics in France, 1789-1795, 1972. Co-editor: The French Revolution and the Meaning of Citizenship, 1993.
Contributor articles to professional journals.
Achievements
Membership
Member Society des Etudes Robespierristes, Society de l'Histoire de Paris et de l'Ile-de-France, Association d'Histoire Societies Rurales.
Connections
Married Ellen Greene, February 6, 1954 (divorced October 1980). Children: John, Elizabeth. Married Evelyn Raskin, January 23, 1981 (deceased September 1995).
Married Kathryn Callaghan, January 18, 1997.
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American
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1961