American history professor at Yale
This article is about the historian. For the politician, see
Beverly A. Gage .
Beverly Gage is an American academic who is a professor of history andAmerican studies atYale University . She was the director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale. She won aPulitzer Prize for her 2022 bookG-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century , and also wroteThe 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 theJefferson Scholars Foundation .[ 3]
Education and career [ edit ] Gage attended Yale as an undergraduate, graduating in 1994 with a degree in American studies, then earned her PhD in history atColumbia 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 withThe 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 ofJ. Edgar Hoover ,G-Man , received the 2023Pulitzer Prize for Biography ,[ 7] the 2023Bancroft Prize andBarbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History .[ 8] It was a finalist for the 2023National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography .[ 9]
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