Lisa Keller
Professor of History
School of Humanities

office: Humanities bldg, room 1023
phone: (914) 251-6538
fax: (914) 251-6559
email: Lisa.keller@purchase.edu

Lisa Keller specializes in trans-Atlantic (England and the U.S.), women’s, and urban history. She has published on New York, London, and Westchester County. She is executive editor of the Encyclopedia of New York City (2nd Edition). She founded the journalism program at Purchase College in 1998, and directed it for ten years. Her book Triumph of Order: Democracy and Public Space in New York & London (Columbia University Press, 2008) was issued in paperback in Sept. 2010. She is the recipient of the State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service (2005), a Gilder-Lehrman Fellowship in American Civilization (2000), and an N.E.H. grant for local history (1996).  She also is an adjunct Research Scholar in the history department at Columbia University, where she serves as Chair of the Seminar on the City, University Seminars.  She directs the Purchase College History project.

Education:
PhD. Cambridge University
B.A. Vassar College (general and history honors)

Select Professional Experience:
Executive Editor, Encyclopedia of New York City, 2nd Ed., Yale University Press;  Dec. 2010

H-Urban Editorial Board Member, June 2010-

Co-Chair, “Shrinking Cities, Smaller Cities,” international conference, Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 2010,
Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University

Triumph of Order: Democracy and Public Space in New York & London, Columbia University Press, November 2008; paperback Sept. 2010

Lehman Faculty Fellow, 2008-9, 2009-10, 2010-11, Columbia University

Adjunct Research Scholar, Dept. of History, Columbia University, 2009-10, 2010-11

Chair, Seminar on the City, University Seminars, Columbia University, May 2004-

Co-Chair, “A World on the Move: Emigration and Immigration in Europe and the Americas,”  international conference, April 23-25, 2009, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University

Chair, “The World of Governor Lehman: New York City and State in Depression and War,” Columbia University, June 5 & 6, 2008

Executive Board Member and Secretary, New York Academy of History (professional organization), Jan. 2007-

Co-Chair, New York State Conference on History, June 2006, Columbia University, New York

“Freedom in Death,” op-ed article, New York Times, Nov. 6, 2005

“Westchester County” and “Purchase College” entries, Encyclopedia of New York State, June 2005

“Shop, Walk, Work and Protest,” op-ed article, New York Times, Aug. 29, 2004

“Public Protest and the Republican Convention,” Interview, WNYC (New York Public Radio), Aug. 25, 2004

Recipient and Project Director, National Endowment for the Humanities Focus Grant for the
"Local and Regional Resources Exploration Project," 1995-96

Historical Exhibition Co-Curator, “A Current That Runs Deep: Public Service, the Arts, and Nelson Rockefeller,"  Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Sept. 29, 1996-Jan. 5, 1997

Coordinator, Panel Discussion, “Celebrating the Vision of Nelson A. Rockefeller,” Sept. 29, 1996, the Performing Arts Center, Purchase College; Charlie Rose, moderator and five panelists