Brian Balogh is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Virginia and Chair of the Governing America in a Global Era Program.

Before coming to U.Va., Brian Balogh taught history at Harvard University. Trained as a historian at The Johns Hopkins University, his specialties are 20th century American history, political history, history of science and technology, and environmental history. Professor Balogh is co-host of BackStory with the American History Guys, a call-in radio show produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and supported by the Miller Center: http://www.backstoryradio.org.

Professor Balogh is the author of A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth Century America (Cambridge University Press, spring 2009) and Chain Reaction: Expert Debate and Public Participation in American Commercial Nuclear Power, 1945–1975 (Cambridge University Press, 1991) and he edited Integrating the Sixties: The Origins, Structures and Legitimacy of Public Policy in a Turbulent Decade (Pennsylvania University Press, 1996). He has published articles and essays about Progressive Era politics, the link between interest groups and public policy, and the legacy of Vietnam.

Professor Balogh co-directs the Miller Center Fellowships in Public Affairs and the GAGE Colloquium Series, projects to promote and disseminate scholarship in contemporary politics, public policy, and political history. Balogh is also founder and faculty advisor to the Public Service Fellows program, which provides opportunities for independent research, community service, and political advocacy to U.Va. students with an interest in American Political Development and world politics, enabling them to become leaders both within the university and the community at large.