Professional Affiliation

Director of the Institute for Public History and Professor at the University of Virginia

Expert Bio

Phyllis Leffler is the Director of the Institute for Public History and Professor at the University of Virginia. She is the co-author (with Joseph Brent) of Public History: A Philosophy and Paradigm and Public History Readings. She has published award-winning articles in The Public Historian and The Magazine of Virginia History and Biography, and most recently, “Black families and fostering of leadership” (with Hephzibah Strimic-Pawl) in Ethnicities.