Jeffrey P. Moran

Contact Information Phone: (785) 864-9461 Office: 3628 Wescoe Hall Email: jefmoran@ku.edu

Associate Professor (Ph.D. Harvard 1996; M.A. Harvard 1990; B.A. Wisconsin, 1988). Modern US; cultural and intellectual history; history of education; public health; sexuality.

Professor Moran is the author of Teaching Sex: The Shaping of Adolescence in the 20th Century (Harvard 2000) (click here for Teaching Sex at the Harvard Press website) and of The Scopes Trial: A Brief History with Documents (New York: Bedford Books, 2002). He has published articles in the Journal of American History, Southern Studies, and Reviews in American History, and recently published pieces in the Journal of American History and the Journal of Southern History on the issues of race and evolution during the Scopes trial. He is currently working on a book about the social context of the antievolution impulse in modern America for Oxford University Press. In support of this project, Moran has received grants from the American Philosophical Society and the George and Eliza Howard Foundation. He won the Organization of American Historians' Louis Peltzer Prize in 1996.

Professor Moran teaches the 20th-century graduate colloquium, the second half of the undergraduate survey, an upper-level course on the U.S., 1920-1945, and the History of Sexuality. He has advised senior honors theses on topics ranging from Robert Penn Warren to fights over development the history of sexuality and gender.