| Marjorie Keniston McIntosh | |
| Birth Date: | 15 November 1940 |
| Birth Place: | Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| Nationality: | American |
| Alma Mater: | Radcliffe College (B.A.) Harvard University (M.A., Ph.D) |
| Occupation: | Historian |
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Marjorie Keniston McIntosh (born 15 November 1940) is an American historian of Great Britain.
Marjorie Keniston McIntosh was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on 15 November 1940. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1962 with a B.A. degree magna cum laude in European history. The following year she received a M.A. in English history from Harvard University. McIntosh studied at the Institute of Historical Research in London, England, in 1965–66 and was awarded her Ph.D. in Tudor/Stuart history by Harvard in 1967.
Dr McIntosh was appointed Assistant Professor of History at the University of Colorado in 1979, promoted to Associate Professor seven years later, and to full Professor in 1992. McIntosh received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1995. Prior to retiring from the University in 2006, Dr McIntosh was named a Distinguished Professor in History.
She founded the Center for British and Irish Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and served as its first executive director.
Dr McIntosh is the organizer and principal coordinator of the Boulder County Latino History Project, a community-based study of a century of Latino participation, based largely on oral history interviews and with much of the research done by Latino teen/youth interns in Boulder, Colorado between January, 2013 and the present. In addition to helping to create the Boulder County Latino History Project and preparing material for its website, she is now engaged with the Project’s work with K-12 teachers.
Additionally, Dr McIntosh spent several working summer sabbaticals in Uganda, where she served as Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Women and Gender Studies at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, East Africa in 2002–03. She later taught, organized, and trained students at another local university to conduct a historical study based on interviews and photo documentation of Muslims living in villages on the slopes of Mt. Elgon, Uganda. That study was conducted beginning in 2008 by students at the Islamic University in Uganda and continued over the following few years.
Dr McIntosh has published numerous books:
She has also contributed chapters to several anthologies:
Scholarly articles written by Dr McIntosh have been published in such scholarly and academic journals as
Harvard Graduate fellow, 1962–64Frank Knox Memorial Traveling Fellow, 1965–66Howard Foundation Fellow, Brown University, 1976–77National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellow, 1983–84Dean's Writing Prize, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1985, 1988Arts and Humanities Writing Award, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1989President's Award for Outstanding Service, University of Colorado, 1990Essex Book Award, 1991, for A Community Transformed: The Manor and Liberty of Havering, 1500–1620Robert L. Stearns Award for Extraordinary Achievement, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1995Excellence in Teaching Award, Boulder Faculty Assembly, University of Colorado, 1995John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, 1995–96University of Colorado grants, 1998–99, 2002–03, 2004.
Dr McIntosh was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Dr McIntosh is married to J. Richard McIntosh, Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. They have two sons and one daughter.