| Name: | Ronald Formisano |
| Position Type: | Chair |
| Appointment Start Date: | 07/01/01 |
| Appointment End Date: | |
| Area of Specialty: | [see "Research Focus" and "Contributions"] |
| Summary Vita: | UK 2001-; University of Florida, 1989-2001;Clark University,1973-89; U.of Rochester 1969-72."The Birth of Mass Political Parties"(Princeton 1971);"The Transformation of Political Culture"(Oxford 1983);"Boston Against Busing"(North Carolina, 1991, second edition expanded 2004). Articles in journals including American His. Rev., Amer.Pol.Sci.Qtly, J. of Amer. His. President New England His Assoc. 1985; Fulbright Chair U.of Bologna 1994; Teaching awars Clark U.1987, U. of Florida 1995; Elected to Nimnating Committee Org. of Amer. Historians 1994-96 |
| Highest Degree: | Ph.D. |
| Professional Affiliations: | 2005 Paper presented to annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, "U.S. Populism and (p) populism." 2005 Attended Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.; Society for the History of the Early Republic; American Antiquarian Society; Senior editor for book series The Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Primary Research Focus: | United States political culture 1770s to the present. Now writing a nearly completed book manuscript "'For the People': U.S. Popul;ist Movements 1770s-1850s," under consideration at the University of North Carolina Press and The Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Key Contributions: | United States politics, political parties, scoial movements, elections; the history of history writing (historiography); five books, many articles in leading professional journals |
| Publications: | 2005 "Recent Interpretations of European Right-Wing Neo-Populist Parties: A Critique," Journal of Policy History 17 (2005), 241-55 |