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Leo P. Ribuffo

Professor of History

Phillips 318
801 22nd Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052

Phone: (202) 994-6469
Fax: (202) 994-6231
E-mail: ribuffo@gwu.edu

Education:

Ph.D., Yale University

Expertise:

Twentieth-Century US history, U.S. intellectual history

Background:

Professor Ribuffo received a B.A. in history from Rutgers and a Ph.D. from Yale in American Studies. He taught at Yale and Bucknell before coming to GW in 1973. Ribuffo specializes in 20th century US history and American intellectual history. He is the author of The Old Christian Right: The Protestant Far Right from the Great Depression to the Cold War (1983) and Right Center Left: Essays in American History (1992). His forthcoming book, The Limits of Moderation: Jimmy Carter and the Ironies of American Liberalism, will be published in early 2008 by Yale University Press.

From December 2006 to January 2007, Dr. Ribuffo served as a Visiting Professor at Fudan University in Shanghai. In summer 2006, he was a fellow at Sophia University in Tokyo with the Organization of American Historians and the Japan American Studies Association.

Courses Taught:

Hist 133 Recent U.S. History, 1890-1945
Hist 134 Contemporary U.S. History Since 1945
Hist 267 Seminar: American Social Thought Since World War II
Hist 283 Readings/Research Seminar: Recent U.S. History
Hist 284 Readings/Research Seminar: Recent U.S. History

Last update: 08.30.07