LeRoy Ashby
Regents Professor and Claudius O. and Mary Johnson Distinguished Professor of History
Wilson-Short Hall 321 – 509-335-4498
ashby@wsu.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1966
Academic & Professional Interests
Ashby teaches popular culture and 20th-century American history.
Honors & Awards
Ashby received the WSU President's Faculty Excellence Award in Instruction in 1983 and was honored as the 1990 and 1993 CASE Professor of the Year for the State of Washington.
Publications
Ashby is the author of With Amusement for All: A History of American Popular Culture since 1830 (University Press of Kentucky, 2006); The Spearless Leader: Senator Borah and the Progressive Movement in the 1920's (University of Illinois Press, 1972); Saving the Waifs: Reformers and Dependent Children (Temple University Press, 1984); William Jennings Bryan: Champion of Democracy (Twayne, 1987); Fighting the Odds: The Life of Senator Frank Church (WSU Press, 1994); and Endangered Children: Dependency, Neglect and Abuse in American History (Twayne, 1997).
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