Bruce Mazlish
Bruce Mazlish | |
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| Born | September 15, 1923 Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Died | November 27, 2016 (aged 93) Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States |
| Spouse | Neva Goodwin |
| Relatives | David Rockefeller (father-in-law) David Kaiser (stepson) |
| Awards | Toynbee Prize (1986) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Columbia University (BA, MA, PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jacques Barzun |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Historiography |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Bruce Mazlish (September 15, 1923 – November 27, 2016) was an American historian who was a professor in the Department of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work focused on historiography and philosophy of history, history of science and technology, artificial intelligence, history of the social sciences, the two cultures and bridging the humanities and sciences (natural and social), revolution, psychohistory, history of globalization and the history of global citizenship. He worked to build the latter two fields of inquiry into a public intellectual movement, through initiatives such as the New Global History conferences.