Derek S. Hoff

Derek S. Hoff is an associate professor of history at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. He was born and raised in Washington, D.C. when American politics were still fun. He earned his BA from Carleton College, his MA from the University of Oregon, and his PhD in history from the University of Virginia. A specialist in American political, policy, and economic history, he is the author of The State and the Stork: The Population Debate and Policy Making in US History (University of Chicago Press, 2012), and, with John Fliter, Fighting Foreclosure: The Contract Clause, the Blaisdell Case, and the Great Depression (University Press of Kansas, 2012).