Brian Balogh

Brian Balogh

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Brian Balogh is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Virginia and Director of the GAGE National Fellowship Program.

Before coming to U.Va., Brian Balogh taught history at Harvard University. Trained as a historian at The Johns Hopkins University, his specialties are 20th century American history, political history, history of science and technology, and environmental history. Professor Balogh is co-host of BackStory with the American History Guys, a call-in radio show produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and supported by the Miller Center: http://www.backstoryradio.org.

View his curriculum vitae.

Professor Balogh is the author of A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth Century America (Cambridge University Press, spring 2009) and Chain Reaction: Expert Debate and Public Participation in American Commercial Nuclear Power, 1945–1975 (Cambridge University Press, 1991) and he edited Integrating the Sixties: The Origins, Structures and Legitimacy of Public Policy in a Turbulent Decade (Pennsylvania University Press, 1996). He has published articles and essays about Progressive Era politics, the link between interest groups and public policy, and the legacy of Vietnam.

Miller Center Projects

Professor Balogh directs the Miller Center National Fellowships, which promote and disseminate scholarship in contemporary politics, public policy, and political history. Balogh is also founder and faculty advisor to the Public Service Fellows program, which provides opportunities for independent research, community service, and political advocacy to U.Va. students with an interest in American Political Development and world politics, enabling them to become leaders both within the university and the community at large.

Selected Publications

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

Books

• A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America, Cambridge University Press, spring 2009
• Integrating the Sixties: The Origins, Structures and Legitimacy of Public Policy in a Turbulent Decade, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996
• Chain Reaction: Expert Debate and Public Participation in American Commercial Nuclear Power, 1945–1975, Cambridge University Press, 1991

Articles

• "Introduction: Directing Democracy," A More Perfect Union: Governors and American Public Policy, 1908–2008, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008
• "Making Pluralism 'Great:' Beyond a Recycled History of the Great Society," The Great Society and the High Tide of Liberalism, eds. Sidney Milkis and Jerry Mileur, University of Massachusetts Press, 2005
• "'Mirrors of Desires:' Interest Groups, Elections and the Targeted Style in Twentieth Century America," The Democratic Experiment, eds. Meg Jacobs, William Novak, and Julian Zelizer, 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
• "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
• "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.

Works in Progress

• Before the State: Reconciling Public and Private in Nineteenth-Century America.
• 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.

Course List

Brian Balogh is the architect of a popular undergraduate course Viewing America, a web-based course that allows students to access film and audio clips, as well as view primary source documents and materials via the internet. (Access to the site requires a password; e-mail him to obtain the password for the web site.)

• HIUS 100, The Mass Media and Politics in American History
• HIUS 316, Viewing America
• HIUS 726, Graduate Colloquium on American Political Development