大卫·科泽

大卫·科泽（英语：David Israel Kertzer，1948年2月20日—）是一位美国历史学家，作家。专攻于意大利政治学、人口学和宗教历史。是布朗大学意大利历史教授。

生平

1969年毕业于布朗大学，1974年博士毕业于布兰戴斯大学，1992年之前任教于鲍登学院，之后加入布朗大学，担任人类学和历史学教授。2006至2011年间担任布朗大学教务长。

2005年被选为美国文理科学院院士。

著作

《教宗与墨索里尼》，2018年5月，ISBN 9787542662774

David Israel Kertzer (born February 20, 1948) is an American anthropologist, historian, and academic, specializing in the political, demographic, and religious history of Italy. He is the Paul Dupee Jr. University Professor of Social Science, Professor of Anthropology, and Professor of Italian Studies at Brown University. His book The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe (2014) won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. From July 1, 2006, to June 30, 2011, Kertzer served as Provost at Brown.

Biography

David Kertzer graduated from Brown University in 1969. He received his PhD in anthropology from Brandeis University in 1974 and taught at Bowdoin College until 1992. That year he joined the faculty of Brown University as Professor of Anthropology and History.

Sponsored by the U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission, in 1978 he was Senior Lecturer at the University of Catania and in 2000, chair at the University of Bologna. In 2001, he relinquished his post at Brown as Professor of History and was appointed Professor of Italian Studies. In 2005, he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. From July 1, 2006, to June 30, 2011, Kertzer served as Provost at Brown.

Scholarship

Kertzer is the author of numerous books and articles on politics and culture, European social history, anthropological demography, 19th-century Italian social history, contemporary Italian society and politics, and the history of Vatican relations with the Jews and the Italian state. His book, The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, was a finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction in 1997.

His The Popes Against the Jews, published in 2001, was subsequently described as "one of the most critically acclaimed and contentious books of its genre and generation." The book analyzes the relation between the development of the Catholic Church and the growth of European anti-Semitism in the 19th and 20th centuries, arguing that the Vatican and several popes contributed actively to fertilizing the ideological ground that produced the Holocaust. The work produced intense discussion among scholars of European history and historians of the Catholic Church. Royal Historical Society Fellow Michael Burleigh objected to “the jumbled chronology, the doctored texts, and the rigged translations that constitute the shoddy underpinnings of the work of Kertzer and of his supportive admirers who are endeavoring to replace an authentic historical narrative with an ideologically driven polemic."

The follow-up work, The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe (2014), examined documentary evidence from the Vatican Secret Archives, arguing that Pope Pius XI played a significant role in supporting the rise of fascism and Benito Mussolini in Italy but not of Nazi Germany. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in April 2015.