Kenneth Cmiel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetKenneth Cmiel
American historian
Date of Birth: 31-Aug-1954
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Date of Death: 04-Feb-2006
Profession: historian
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Kenneth Cmiel
- Kenneth J.
- Cmiel (August 31, 1954 - February 4, 2006) was an American academic and historian specializing in the history of human rights at the University of Iowa.
- He was a professor of history there, as well as the director of the university's Center for Human Rights.He is the son of Henry and Jean (née Gasiorek) Cmiel.
- In 1980 he married Anne Duggan with whom he had three children.
- He graduated from Brother Rice High School, Chicago in 1972.
- He died in 2006 from a previously-undiagnosed brain tumor.He received his PhD at the University of Chicago under the direction of Neil Harris.
- He has published two books: Democratic Eloquence: The Fight over Popular Speech in Nineteenth-Century America (1990), which won the Allan Nevins Prize from the Society of American Historians, and A Home of Another Kind: One Chicago Orphanage and the Tangle of Child Welfare (1995).
- At the time of his death, he was in the process of writing a third book, to cover the origins of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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