Jeff Bloodworth

Jeff Bloodworth is a professor of history co-director of the School of Public Service & Global Affairs at Gannon University (Erie, PA). A political historian who works on the history of contemporary American liberalism and genocide studies, he has published widely on the travails of the liberal project, the history of humanitarian intervention, and the American foreign policy impulse abroad. He is currently midway through a biography of Speaker Carl Albert, who presided as Majority Leader during the Great Society and Civil Rights era and as Speaker during Watergate. Heartland Liberal is under contract with the University of Oklahoma Press.

Bloodworth holds a Ph.D. in modern United States history from Ohio University’s Contemporary History Institute and a certificate in contemporary history from the University of Copenhagen. His book, Losing the Center: The Decline of American Liberalism 1968-1992 (University of Kentucky Press) was nominated for the Ellis W. Hawley and Frederick Jackson Turner awards. In addition, Bloodworth was multi-year participant in Stanford University’s pathbreaking Good Judgement Project, which established “best practices” for political forecasting. Bloodworth has received grants and fellowships from the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, & Ford Libraries as well as the U.S. Holocaust Museum and research repositories and educational institutes throughout the United States, Germany, Israel, Poland, and the Ukraine.