Gabriel Jackson (hispanist)

Gabriel Jackson

Gabriel Jackson

Gabriel Jackson
Born March 10, 1921 (1921-03-10) (age 95)
Mount Vernon, New York
Occupation American Hispanist

Gabriel Jackson (born March 10, 1921) is an American Hispanist, historian and journalist. He was born in Mount Vernon, New York in 1921.[1] Since his retirement he has lived in Barcelona, Spain.

A victim of McCarthyism,[2] he studied at Harvard and Stanford before attaining his doctorate at Université de Toulouse. A Fulbright scholar (1960–1961),[3] he obtained his professorship in 1965 and is Professor Emeritus at University of California, San Diego.

A disciple of both Jaume Vicens i Vives and the prominent French historian Pierre Vilar, Jackson has been a regular collaborator of the Spanish daily El País for many years.

In 1966 he was awarded the American Historical Association's Herbert Baxter Adams Prize,[4] and in 2002, Spain's prestigious Nebrija Prize from the University of Salamanca.[3]

Works

--do.--Madrid: Turner, 1976

References

  1. Cline, H. F.; Conference on Latin American History (1966). Historians of Latin America in the United States, 1965: biobibliographies of 680 specialists. Published for the Conference on Latin American History [by] Duke University Press. Retrieved 2015-09-10.
  2. Popkin, J. D. (2005). History, Historians, and Autobiography. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226675435. Retrieved 2015-09-10.
  3. 1 2 "Curso académico 2002-2003 | Fulbright Program in Spain - official Web site". web.archive.org. Retrieved 2015-09-14.
  4. "Herbert Baxter Adams Prize". American Historical Association. 1966. Retrieved 2009-02-15.
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