Name Robert Griffith Role Historian | Books The politics of fear | |
Died January 25, 2011, Holy Cross Hospital, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States Education University of Wisconsin-Madison (1967), DePauw University Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada | ||
Robert W. Griffith (October 1940 - January 25, 2011) was an American historian.
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Life
Robert W. Griffith was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and grew up in Evansville, Southern Indiana. He graduated from DePauw University, 1964, and received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, 1967, where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. He taught at the University of Georgia, and at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland. He taught history and was chair of the History Department at American University.
His work has appeared in the American Historical Review, the Journal of American History, Reviews in American History, and Business History Review.
He signed the "Resolution on United States Government Practices Inimical to the Values of the Historical Profession". He has served on the Board of Editors of the Journal of American History. He served as Treasurer of the Organization of American Historians until stepping down January 1, 2011 for health reasons.
Griffith died on January 25, 2011 due to complications from Hodgkin's lymphoma.