Associate Professor of History (1991)

Associate Professor of History and Co-Director, GAGE, The Miller Center of Public Affairs

Faculty Member of the Institute for Advanced Studies of Culture, and Committee on the History of Environment and Technology
Advisor to Birdsall Jefferson Scholars Fellowship

20th Century U.S. Political

Office Hours: Mondays, 2:00-4:00 p.m

Office: The Miller Center of Public Affairs rm 122

Phone: (434) 243-8971

Fax: (434) 982-2739

Email: bb9svirginia.edu

Education

Publications

For a complete list of Brian Balogh's articles and books, please see his curriculum vitae.

A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America (Cambridge University Press, 2008).

Chain Reaction: Expert Debate and Public Participation in American Commercial Nuclear Power, 1945-1975 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991).

Integrating the Sixties: The Origins, Structure and Legacy of a Turbulent Decade, editor (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996).

"The State of the State Among Historians," Social Science History 27, no. 3 (fall 2003): 455-63.

"'Mirrors of Desires:' Interest Groups, Elections and the Targeted Style in Twentieth Century America," Meg Jacobs, William Novak, and Julian Zelizer eds., Democracy in Ameirca (Princeton University Press, 2003).

"Scientific Forestry and the Roots of the Modern American State: Gifford Pinchot's Path to Progressive Reform," Environmental History 7, no. 2 (April, 2002): 198-225.

"Making Democracy Work: A Brief History of Twentieth Century Executive Reorganization," with Joanna Grisinger and Philip Zelikow, (Miller Center of Public Affairs Working Paper, July, 2002).

Integrating the Sixties: The Origins, Structure and Legacy of a Turbulent Decade, editor (University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996) .

Chain Reaction: Expert Debate and Public Participation in American Commercial Nuclear Power, 1945-1975 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991).

"From Metaphor to Quagmire: The Domestic Legacy of the Vietnam War," Charles Neu, ed., After Vietnam: Legacies of a Lost War (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), 24-55.

"Introduction to Integrating the Sixties," Journal of Policy History, 8, no. 1, (1996): 1-33.

"Reorganizing the Organizational Synthesis: Federal-Professional Relations in Modern America," Studies in American Political Development 5, no. 1 (1991): 119-172.

"Securing Support: The Emergence of the Social Security Board as a Political Actor, 1935?1939," in Ellis W. Hawley and Donald T. Critchlow, eds., Federal Social Policy: The Historical Dimension (University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988), pp. 55-78.

"An Evolving Presidency," Los Angeles Times, Sunday Commentary, M1, August 2, 1998.

"Reconsidering Elite Dead White Males," feature review of Hershberg, James B. Conanat, Diplomatic History 21, no. 1 (winter 1997):149-157.

Works in Progress

Prelude to a Nation: State-Society Relations in Nineteenth Century America.

Building a Modern State: Gifford Pinchot and the Tangled Roots of Modern Administration in the United States.

Awards and Activities

Mayo Distinguished Teaching Award, 2005-2007. 

Office of African American Affairs, Mentor of the Year, 2000.

University of Virginia Senate Faculty Teaching Grant, 1999.

Princeton University Library Fellowship, May, 1999.

Hoover Presidential Library Research Grant, 1989, 1999.

Teaching and Technology Initiative, University of Virginia, fellowship, 1996.

University of Virginia, Summer Research Grants 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996.

Ada E. Leeke Research Grant, 1994.

Truman Presidential Library, Research Grant, June, 1992, 1994.

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Fellowship, 1993-4.

National Endowment for the Humanities, Travel Grant, 1992.

Smithsonian Institution, Short Term Visitor, July, 1992.

Forest History Society, Research Grant, 1992.

Bankard Fund for Political Economy, Research Grant, 1992.

National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 1990.

Innovative Teaching Fund Grant, Harvard University, 1990.

American Association for State and Local History Grant, 1988.

The Brookings Institution, graduate research fellowship, 1986.