Michael Willrich

Michael Willrich
Education	Yale University University of Chicago
Occupation	Historian
Employer	Brandeis University

Michael Willrich is an American historian. He is the Leff Families Professor of History at Brandeis University, and the author of three books. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2015. His book, American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle Between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century was a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for History.

Selected works

• Willrich, Michael (2003). City of Courts: Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521794039. OCLC 51271734.
• Willrich, Michael (2014). Pox: An American History. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 9781101476222. OCLC 883371074.
• Willrich, Michael (2023). American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle Between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 9781541697379. OCLC 1370003362.