Assistant Professor Alan Petigny received his Ph.D. in 2003 in U.S. History from Brown University, his MA in 1995 from Brown University, and his B.A. in 1992 from the University of South Florida. He joined the University of Florida Department of History in 2000. He is completing a manuscript on the liberalization of values and norms in the United States after World War II, and his article entitled “Illegitimacy, Postwar Psychology, and the Reperiodization of the Sexual Revolution” will appear this fall in The Journal of Social History. Dr. Petigny has recently taught courses in America in the Sixties, America in the Fifties, American Social and Intellectual History, 1945-1975, and the American History, 1877 to the Present. He has received the University of Florida Faculty Enhancement Grant and research grants from Sophia Smith Collection and the Archives of the Episcopal Church. He has received the following fellowships: Liberty Fund Fellowship, Erasmus Institute Summer Fellowship, Nesbit Minority Graduate Fellowship, Nesbit Minority Graduate Fellowship, and Brown University Graduate Fellowship.
His current interests include the liberalization of values and norms in the U.S. in the twentieth century, the rise and fall of Freudian analysis in the twentieth century, and anti-authoritarianism in American life after World War II.
