Faculty and Staff
Mark Leff
Associate Professor of History
Professor Leff, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1978 and has taught at UIUC since 1986, specializes in U.S. political and public policy history. His research and teaching center on the dynamics of U.S. war homefronts, social movements, civil liberties, and social welfare policy since World War I. A recipient of the Campus and LAS awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching, he was named the state's Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 1998. Selected publications include The Limits of Symbolic Reform: The New Deal and Taxation, 1933-1939 (Cambridge University Press, 1984; paperback 2003); "The Politics of Sacrifice on the American Home Front in World War II," Journal of American History (March 1991); and "Revisioning U.S. Political History," American Historical Review (June 1995).