Robert Zaller


Robert Michael Zaller is an American author whose works include volumes of history, criticism, and verse. He is Drexel Distinguished University Professor of History Emeritus, and has been active as an opponent of the death penalty.

Honors

His honors include the Phi Alpha Theta Prize, the Tor House Foundation Award, and the Lawrence Clark Powell Award. He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1985-86, and is an elected fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He was chair of the Faculty Senate of the University of Miami from 1982 to 1985, was a long-serving member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Yale Center for Parliamentary History, and was President of the Robinson Jeffers Association.