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Gene A. Brucker
Gene Adam Brucker (October 15, 1924 – July 9, 2017) was an American historian and the Shepard Professor of History, Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. Brucker studied at Oxford and...view moreGene Adam Brucker (October 15, 1924 – July 9, 2017) was an American historian and the Shepard Professor of History, Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. Brucker studied at Oxford and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1954. Specializing in early modern European history, Brucker joined Berkeley immediately and taught there until his retirement in 1991. He was especially active in the history department, where he served as the department chair from 1969-1972. Brucker was also the chair of the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate from 1984-1986 and president of the Renaissance Society of America. He was awarded the RSA’s Lifetime Achievement Award, along with the Berkeley Citation award. He also received several other academic awards, including the Rhodes Scholarship, Fulbright Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, and the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. In 1979, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In total, Brucker published more than 30 articles and essays while authoring 11 books, including Florentine Politics and Society, 1343-1378 and The Civic World of Renaissance Florence, which detail the history of late medieval Florence.view less