Department of History

Gene Zubovich, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of History. A 2021-22 Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress and a rising star in his field, Zubovich is a lauded historian of the modern United States who writes about the history of the U.S. and the world, religion and politics and human rights. His current book project, for which he was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, investigates how Americans, beginning in the 1960s, exported their form of polarizing politics across the world through their culture wars, showing how the current highly partisan cultural and political climate existed during the Cold War and was deeply intertwined with major international transformations, like decolonization and the advent of human rights.