Alan Brinkley is Provost and Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University.

His published works include Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression (Knopf, 1982), which won the 1983 National Book Award; The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People (Knopf, 1992); The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (Knopf, 1995); and Liberalism and Its Discontents (Harvard, 1998).

His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in scholarly journals and in such periodicals as the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine, the New Republic, the Times Literary Supplement, and the London Review of Books.  He has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Center, the National Humanities Center, the Media Studies Center, Russell Sage Foundation, and others; and he has been the recipient of the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize at Harvard and the Great Teacher Award at Columbia.  

He is chairman of the board of trustees of the Century Foundation, a trustee of the National Humanities Center, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  In 1998-99, he was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University.

He has been at Columbia since 1991 and was chair of the Department of History from 2000 to 2003..  He has taught previously at M.I.T., Harvard, Princeton, and the City University of New York Graduate School.  

He received his A.B. from Princeton and his Ph.D. from Harvard.