Dr. Jeff Bloodworth

Jeff Bloodworth is a writer & professor of American political history in the School of Public Service & Global Affairs at Gannon University (Erie, PA). He has published widely on post-1960s liberalism and conservatism. He is currently midway through a biography of Speaker Carl Albert, who presided as Majority Leader during the 1960s 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. 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. His work has appeared in The Historian, The Liberal Patriot, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Political Science & Politics, The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Tikkun, The Free Press, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, & Philadelphia Inquirer. https://www.jeffbloodworth.com/