Alan Petigny

Alan Petigny is an award-winning former reporter for a National Public Radio (NPR) affiliate in Florida. He received his Ph.D. in history from Brown University in 2003. His works have appeared in The Journal of Social History, Reviews in American History, American Heritage, The Canadian Review of American Studies (forthcoming), and The Journal of America Culture (forthcoming). Petigny has also held fellowships at Princeton University’s Center for the Study of Religion, and Rutgers University’s Institute for Health. Currently, Petigny is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Florida, where he is completing a manuscript for Cambridge University Press entitled “The Permissive Society, 1941–1965.”

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