Pauline Maier

Pauline Maier is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American History at MIT. Maier primarily writes on the American Revolution and the Early Republic. Her book, American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence, was named as a top book of 1997 by the New York Times Book Review and was a finalist in General Nonfiction for the National Book Critics' Circle Award. Recently, Simon and Shuster published her book Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788, in 2010.