Background

Ronald Formisano was born on March 31, 1939 in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Son of Victor and Eva (Piceme) Formisano.

Education

Ronald graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in 1960. Then ha received a M.A. from the University of Wisconsin in1962. In 1966 he earned a Ph.D. from Wayne State University.

Career

Formisano taught at Wayne State University (1965-1967), the University of Pittsburgh (1967-1968), the University of Rochester (1968-1973), Clark University (1973-1990), the University of Florida (1990-2001). He has served as an editor of the Journal of American History, an AHA representative to the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, and past president of the New England Historical Association. In 1989 he was a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Rome and in 1994 held the Fulbright Chair of Political Science at the University of Bologna. He is currently the William T. Bryan Chair of American History and has taught at the University of Kentucky since 2001. He works and teaches in the field of United States political culture and politics in the nineteenth and twentieth century. His current project focuses on populist movements in American history from the Revolution to the 1990s. He has published articles in the American Historial Review, Journal of American History, American Political Science Review, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, American Quarterly and other scholarly journals.

Achievements

• Formisano won a Distinguished Senior Faculty Teaching Award at Clark University in 1987 by vote of the senior class, and a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences teaching award at the University of Florida in 1995.

Works

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  • Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s
  • For the People: American Populist Movements from the Revolution to the 1850s
  • The Tea Party: A Brief History
  • The Great Lobster War
  • The Transformation of Political Culture: Massachusetts Parties, 1790s-1840s by Ronald P. Formisano (1984-10-25)
  • The Birth of Mass Political Parties in Michigan, 1827-1861

Membership

He has been a member of Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, Southern Historical Association.

Connections

Ronald is married to Erica Chiquoine Formisano and has a daughter Laura and a son Matthew.

Father:

Victor Formisano

Mother:

Eva (Piceme) Formisano

Spouse:

Erica Chiquoine Formisano

Daughter:

Laura Formisano

Son:

Matthew Formisano