Gabor Boritt

Gabor S. Boritt is a Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies, director of the Civil War Institute; Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Lincoln Prize, the $100,000 annual award for the finest work on the Civil War, and co-chairman, with David Brion Davis of Yale University, of the Advisory Board of the Gilder Lehrman Institute. He received his B.A. at Yankton College, S.D., his M.A. at the University of South Dakota, and his Ph.D. from Boston University. He has received an honorary doctorate and was selected as a distinguished alumnus of both Yankton and Boston. He was born in Hungary in 1940 and settled in the Dakotas in 1958. Before coming to Gettysburg College in 1981, he taught at six American universities and was selected three times as an outstanding teacher by students, faculty, and alumni. He has lectured for the U.S. Army in Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Thailand; has given a number of named lectures; and has lectured at the National Geographic Society, the Smithsonian, the Jimmy Carter Library, the Morgan Library, the Newberry Library, the Nobel Institute in Oslo, and, among others, at the Universities of Budapest, Cambridge, London, and Sorbonne I. His scholarly work as been recognized through awards and fellowships from his home institutions as well as from the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society (twice), the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Harvard University, the Huntington Library and Art Gallery, the Lehrman Institute, that National Endowment for the Humanities, the Newberry Library, the Pennsylvania Humanities Council (thrice), the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, and the Social Science Research Council.