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Joseph John Ellis (born July 18, 1943) is an American historian and professor whose work focuses on the lives and times of the founders of the United States of America. ''American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson'' won a National Book Award〔("National Book Awards – 1997" ). National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-24. (With acceptance speech by Ellis.)〕 and ''Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation'' won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for History.〔("History" ). ''Past winners & finalists by category''. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved March 24, 2012.〕 Both these books were bestsellers. ==Background and teaching== He received his B.A. from the College of William and Mary, where he was initiated into Theta Delta Chi. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University in 1969. He taught at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Ellis later joined the faculty at Mount Holyoke College; in 1979 he was made full professor. He is also a Ford Foundation Professor. His work has concentrated on the Founding Fathers of the United States, including biographies of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, the Revolution and the early Federalist years. Ellis served as dean of faculty at Mount Holyoke (1980-1990); following that, he was named by the trustees to the endowed Ford Foundation Chair in history.〔 For part of 1984, he also served as Acting President while President Elizabeth Topham Kennan was on leave. Ellis was suspended without pay (due to controversy over his alleged service in Vietnam) from his endowed chair in 2001; he was reappointed to the chair in 2005. Ellis currently teaches at the Commonwealth Honors College at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts with his wife Ellen Wilkins Ellis, and is the father of three adult sons. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joseph Ellis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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