Robert
H. Zieger
Office:236 Keene-Flint Hall
Phone: (352) 273-3399
Fax: (352) 392-6927
Email: zieger@ufl.edu
Website:
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/rzieger/
Mailing address:
Department of History
University of Florida
P.O. Box 117320
Gainesville, FL 32611-7320
Distinguished Professor of History Robert H. Zieger received his Ph.D. in 1965 from the University of Maryland. He joined the University of Florida Department of History in 1986 after teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point; Kansas State University; and Wayne State University (Michigan). His most recent book is For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865 (University Press of Kentucky, 2007). He is also the author of, among other books, American Workers, American Unions: The Twentieth Century (with Gilbert J. Gall; 3d ed.; Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002); America's Great War: World War I and the American Experience (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000); and The CIO, 1935-1955 (University of North Carolina Press, 1995). Recent article-length publications include “Recent Historical Scholarship on Public Policy in Relation to Race and Labor,” Labor History (February 2005); "'Uncle Sam Wants You. . . To Go Shopping': A Consumer Society Responds to National Crisis, 1957-2001," Canadian Review of American Studies (2004); "The Evolving Cold War: The Changing Character of the Enemy Within, 1949-63," American Communist History (2004); and “The Paradox of Plenty: The Advertising Council and the Post-Sputnik Crisis," Advertising and Society Review 4: 1 (2003).
Since his retirement from teaching in May, 2008, Bob has been editing an encyclopedia volume on US Political History, 1921-45, for Congressional Quarterly. He remains active University affairs, serving on the Library Leadership Board and on the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program Advisory Board. He is also chairing the awards committee for the recently established Pleasants Oral History Travel Grant for the SPOHP.
