Curriculum Vitae
Robert Zaller
Born:
New York, New York
Present Position: Professor of History
Department of History and Politics
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Education:
B.A., Queens College, CUNY
M.A., Washington University
PhD., Washington University
Honors and Awards:
Phi Beta Kappa
Gaudens Megaro Prize in European History
Phi Alpha Theta Prize (for The Parliament of 1621)
Tor House Foundation Award (for The Cliffs of Solitude)
John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, 1985-86
Elected Fellow, Royal Historical Society, 1991
President, Robinson Jeffers Association, 1997-2000
Books:
The Parliament of 1621: A Study in Constitutional
Conflict. University of California Press, 1971
Editor, A Casebook on Anais Nin. New American Library,
1974
Co-Editor (with Richard L. Greaves), Biographical Dictionary
Of British Radicals in the Seventeenth Century, 3 volumes.
Harvester Press: Volume 1, 1982; Volume 2, 1983; Volume 3,
1984
The Cliffs of Solitude: A Reading of Robinson Jeffers.
Cambridge University Press, 1983
Europe in Transition, 1660-1815. Harper & Row, 1984
Editor, The Tribute of His Peers: Elegies for Robinson Jeffers.
Tor House Press, 1989
Co-Author, Civilizations of the World: The Human Adventure.
First Edition, Harper & Row, 1990; Second Edition, HarperCollins,
1993; Third Edition, Longman, 1997
Editor, Centennial Essays for Robinson Jeffers.
University of Delaware Press/ Associated University Presses,
1991
Co-Author, Civilizations of the West: The Human Adventure.
First Edition, HarperCollins, 1992; Brief Edition, HarperCollins,
1994; Second Edition, Longman, 1997
Translator (with Lili Bita), Thirty Years in the Rain: The Selected
Poetry of Nikiforos Vrettakos. Somerset Hall Press, 2005
The Discourse of Legitimacy in Early Modern England. Stanford
University Press, 2007.
Editor, The Classic Historians. Linus Publications, 2009.
Robinson Jeffers and the American Sublime. Stanford University
Press, 2012.
Co-Author (with Lili Bita), The Storm Rider. Somerset Hall Press,
2012.
Contributor:
Books published by G. K. Hall, Folger Shakespeare Library,
Oxford University Press, Stanford University Press, Fordham
University Press, University of Michigan Press, Wayne State
University Press, etc.
More than fifty articles and more than three hundred reviews in
scholarly journals and popular periodicals.
Filmography:
The Art of the Steal. Produced by Len Feinberg, directed by Don
Argott.