Ari Kelman

Ari Kelman
TitleChancellor’s Leadership Professor of History
AwardsBancroft Prize (2014)
Academic background
Education
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Davis

Ari Kelman (born 1968) is Chancellor’s Leadership Professor of History at University of California, Davis. Until 2016, he was the McCabe Greer Professor of History at Penn State University. His fields of specialization are the U.S. Civil War, Western, Native American, and environmental history. Kelman's book, A Misplaced Massacre, won the 2014 Bancroft Prize, Avery O. Craven Award, Tom Watson Brown Book Award, and Robert M. Utley Prize.