Robert
H. Zieger
Office:207 Keene-Flint Hall
Phone: (352) 378-0793
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 Life and Labor in the New New South: Essays in Southern Labor History since 1950, an edited collection published in 2012 by the University Press of Florida. He is also the author of, among other books, For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865 (University Press of Kentucky, 2007); 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 "'Grudgingly, Unwillingly, Almost Insultingly': Racial Progress in the Era of the Great War," Journal of Florida Studies (Fall 2011) and "The Development of Federal Old-Age Policy in the Era of the Great Depression: Pensions, Policies, and Politics, 1920-1940," Journal of Aging, Humanities and the Arts (2008): 251-265.
Since his retirement from teaching in May, 2008, Bob has edited an encyclopedia volume on US Political History, 1921-45, for Congressional Quarterly. He remains active in University affairs, serving on the Library Leadership Board and on the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program Advisory Board.
