Robert Griffith

Professor & Department Chair
PhD, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Battelle 139
bgriff@american.edu
202-885-2419
Office Hours: Mon./Thu. 2-5pm
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Course Syllabi

HIS 480 Major Seminar in American History I

Fields of Interest

Modern United States

A former dean at the University of Maryland at College Park and former provost of American University, Professor Griffith is the author of The Politics of Fear: Joseph R. McCarthy and the Senate, which won the Fredrick Jackson Turner Prize of the Organization of American Historians. The third edition of his anthology, Major Problems in American History since 1945, coedited with Paula Baker, appeared in 2006. The author of many articles, essays, and reviews, Griffith has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Harry S. Truman Library Institute.