birth_place awards nationality workplaces birth_date article_title name alma_mater
brooklyn , new york usa bancroft prize -lrb- 1980 -rrb- american oxford of texas dartmouth college boston university stanford university university university of california , los angeles university may 16 , 1934 robert dallek
 robert dallek university of illinois at urbana-champaign columbia university
robert dallek

robert dallek -lrb- born may 16 , 1934 in brooklyn , new york -rrb- is an american historian specializing in the presidents of the united states .
he retired as a history professor at boston university in 2004 and previously taught at columbia university , the university of california , los angeles -lrb- ucla -rrb- , and oxford university .
as of november 2013 he teaches at stanford university 's stanford in washington program in washington , d.c. .
he won the bancroft prize for his 1979 book `` franklin d. roosevelt and american foreign policy , 1932 -- 1945 '' as well as other awards for scholarship and teaching .
