Peter Clifford Kulsrud, 51, died of natural causes in Hoboken, NJ on September 30th. He was born and raised in Princeton, attending Riverside Elementary School, Valley Road Middle School and graduating from the Lawrenceville School in 1976. At Lawrenceville, he was an honored member of the fencing team and a dedicated student. He received his Bachelor's Degree from Sarah Lawrence College, which included a year at London School of Economics and he later attended business school at Northeastern University.

Following business school, Dr. Kulsrud worked in both the banking and mortgage industries. He later returned to his first love of history, earning an M.A. in French history from Boston College, and a Ph.D. from New York University in European History. He recently published the book titled "The Fabrication of the Modern Media". In it he approached the history of the French people during the Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary period, by viewing it through the prism of theater that was emerging as a dominant form in French culture.

After receiving his doctoral degree, Dr. Kulsrud taught history at various universities including: Yeshiva University, Rutgers University, and the University of Connecticut. At the time of his death, he was lecturing on modern British history and related topics at Pace University. He was a highly regarded and generous teacher, warmly admired by his students and fellow faculty members.

Dr. Kulsrud was not a man of the twenty-first (or even the twentieth) century. He was deeply immersed in history, and was an original and creative thinker with a wry sense of humor.

He is survived by his loving family, including parents Russell and Helene Kulsrud, long-time residents of Princeton, and sister Pamela Corey, of Pound Ridge, NY. He will be sorely missed.

In lieu of flowers, charitable contributions may be made to the American Historical Association, 400 A Street, S.E., Washington, DC 20003-3889, http://www.historians.org