Jon Gjerde

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jon Gjerde
Occupation	American historian
Date Of Birth	Feb 25, 1953(1953-02-25)
Age	71
Date Of Death	October 26, 2008, Albany, CA
Birthplace	Waterloo
Country	United States
Birth City	Iowa
Horoscope	Pisces

Jon Gjerde Biography

Jon Gjerde is one of the most popular and richest American historian who was born on February 25, 1953 in Waterloo, Iowa, United States. Jon Gjerde (February 25, 1953 – October 26, 2008) was an American historian and the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of American History and American Citizenship at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also served as dean of the Division of Social Sciences in the College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Gjerde’s research concerned European immigration to the Midwestern United States and European immigrants in the midwest. Among other accolades, Gjerde won three Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book awards for his writings on immigration and agricultural history. He was most commonly associated with his two prizewinning books, From Peasants to Farmers: The Migration from Belestrand, Norway, to the Upper Middle West (1989) and The Minds of the West: Ethnocultural Revolution in the Rural Middle West, 1830–1917 (1997)

Jon Gjerde Net Worth

Jon Gjerde is one of the richest American historian from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jon Gjerde 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Gjerde was born in Waterloo, Iowa, and grew up in Cedar Falls, Iowa, the youngest of three children in a family of Norwegian immigrants. His father, Waldemar Gjerde, was a professor of education at the University of Northern Iowa, but died when Jon Gjerde was young; his mother was a schoolteacher. Gjerde himself attended the University of Northern Iowa, and graduated in 1975 with a double major in history and philosophy and religion. He went on to graduate studies in history at the University of Minnesota, earning a master’s degree in 1978 and a Ph.D. in 1982.

After teaching at the University of Minnesota, the University of Wisconsin and the California Institute of Technology, Gjerde joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1985. He was tenured in 1989. Gjerde served as resident director of the Scandinavian Study Center in Lund, Sweden from 1991 to 1992. He served as chair of the history department at UC Berkeley from 2001 to 2004, was named interim dean of social sciences in 2006 and was confirmed as dean in 2007. Like his father, he died in his 50s of a heart attack; he died in Albany, California. The Jon and Ruth Gjerde Graduate Student Endowment was established to benefit the UC Berkeley History Department.

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Nina Ranked on the list of most popular American historian. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jon Gjerde celebrates birthday on February 25 of every year.