Dr. Robert Chiles is a senior lecturer in the Department of History, with a specialization in American life, society, and politics from the Gilded Age through the New Deal years. His publications explore various facets of the early twentieth-century American polity, while his first monograph, The Revolution of ’28, is a reassessment of class and ethnic politics in the 1920s, centered on the political career of New York Governor Alfred E. Smith. He is co-editor of the journal New York History and has taught numerous courses for University Honors, including inquiries into U.S. politics and American literature.