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Edward J. Larson, Ph.D.
University Professor and Hugh & Hazel Darling Chair in Law

Office: School of Law (SOL)
E-mail: ed.larson@pepperdine.edu

  • Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1984
  • J.D., Harvard University, 1979
  • M.A., University of Wisconsin, 1976
  • B.A., Williams College, 1974
Prior to joining the Pepperdine School of Law, Professor Larson was the Russell Professor of History and held the Talmadge Chair in Law at the University of Georgia. He received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in History.

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Key Awards/Affiliations:
  • 2003-04, Participant, Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, National Science Foundation.
  • 2003 American Spirit Award, Conference on Southern Literature.
  • 2001 Christ-Janer Award for Outstanding Research in the Humanities, Univ. of GA.
  • 2000-01 John Adams Chair of American History, Fulbright Program, University of Leiden, The Netherlands.
  • 2000 George Sarton Lecture, American Association for Advancement of Science.
  • 1999 National Civil Liberties Award, American Civil Liberties Union.
  • 1998 Pulitzer Prize for History.
  • 1998 American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award Finalist.
  • 1998 Washington State Governor's Writers Award.
  • 1998 Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge Certificate of Recognition.
  • 1997 Templeton Prize for Outstanding Article in Science and Religion.
  • Resident Scholar, Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study Center, Italy, 1996.
  • Richard B. Russell Award for Undergraduate Teaching, University of Georgia, 1992.
  • Parks-Heggoy Award for Excellence in Teaching History, University of Georgia, 1989.
  • University Fellow, University of Wisconsin, 1983-84.
  • Member, Phi Beta Kappa, Williams College, 1974.
Selected Works:
  • The Reception of Darwinism in the Nineteenth Century, 21 SCIENCE AND CHRISTIAN BELIEF 3 (2009).
  • Prejudiced Results: Darwin and Race, BOOKFORUM, Feb./Mar. 2009, at 36.
  • The Politics of History, WALL ST. J., Feb. 6, 2008.
  • Time for Another Jubilee, USA TODAY, Jan. 14, 2008.
  • The Revolution of 1800, 42 AMERICAN HISTORY 26 (2007).
  • Declarations of Faith, TIME, Nov. 12, 2007.
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