Dickinson College
Faculty Profile
Matthew Pinsker
Professor of History; Pohanka Chair in American Civil War History (2002)
Contact Information
on sabbatical Fall 2024
Denny Hall Room 218
717-245-1350
Bio
Pinsker teaches courses in U.S. political, legal and diplomatic history. His research focuses on the career of Abraham Lincoln, partisanship in the Civil War era, American constitutionalism, the Underground Railroad and the history of U.S. campaigns and elections.
Education
- B.A., Harvard University, 1990
- D.Phil., University of Oxford, 1995